stop_listening() seems to not work under Windows

[caileanwilkinson]

stop_listening() seems to not work under Windows

[CaileanWilkinson]

Thanks for letting me know! I have just pushed an update which I hope fixes this problem.

stop_listening() previously closed and reopened the usb connection, the theory being that this would force the thread listening to it to raise an exception and stop waiting for a response, so we could make it quit. I suspect (hope) the closing and reopening was happening too quickly to interrupt the listener process and so wasn't quitting properly.

The new version throws the whole connection away and starts a new one (which the listener thread won't have a reference to) and so now there should be no connection left for the listener thread to respond to.

I don't have a windows pc to test this on, so please let me know if it works.

[irukard]

Unfortunately adding self.__interface = hid.device() doesn't solve the problem.
I suppose the implementation of hidapi on windows is quite different than on linux/mac.

[CaileanWilkinson]

It is possible that hidapi does not raise the same exception when a read fails on windows as it does on Mac, or that when the connection is closed the read fails gracefully without raising an exception. I'll have to try it on a windows pc and have a look.