[pysystray-users] Threads and "global variable"

[Christian K. <chr...@gm...>]

Thank you Essien for this great tool!

I am stuck at what seems like a simple thing: I have spawned one thread 
automatically on load of the taskbar icon. That was easy. Now I need 
this thread to change it's behaviour depending on what menu items I 
selected. I have a global variable that each menu item can set, but the 
thread doesn't see it.

After what I could google on it it seems the threads run in their own 
space. I found some examples for communication between threads but only 
for class-threads and not the type function-thread that pysystray uses, 
plus it seems complicated.

What is the most simplistic approach to change a parameter "globally" so 
that the thread can see it? I tried a get_val() function but that 
doesn't work either and the thread always sees 0.

Cheers,
Chris