Thread detector & dispatcher are not daemon threads....

[titioft]

I am building a daemon script to start/stop my PIFace water counter script. I use the pifacedigitalio.InputEventListener class for that but the thread launch @ activate ar enot daemon threads so when my main process hangs / be killed or stops the detector / dispatcher threads are still up... which is really annoying. Can you add a paramater 'daemon' into your activate methods to set daemon thread parameter to true or false depending of what we want ot do.

[tompreston]

PiFace Common v4.2.0:

• Added daemon flag for PortEventListener.

PiFace Digital IO v3.1.0:

• Added daemon flag for InputEventListener.

The new flag is used like this:

listener = pifacedigitalio.InputEventListener(pfd, daemon=True)

I'm afraid I'm too busy at the minute to push these to the Raspbian repos (and update the docs) but I'll get around to it as soon as I can. In the mean time you can either clone this repo or use this work around:

listener = pifacedigitalio.InputEventListener(pfd)
listener.detector.daemon = True
listener.dispatcher.daemon = True

I hope that helps! It certainly has for me -- the hanging thing was massively frustrating! Thanks.