Examples fail to run with error "AttributeError: 'AsyncWorker' object has no attribute 'isAlive'"

[aunitt]

After installing the code I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/Pimoroni/gfxhat/examples/hello-world.py", line 55, in
touch.on(x, handler)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/gfxhat/touch.py", line 119, in on
register(handler)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/gfxhat/touch.py", line 114, in register
_cap1166.on(channel=button, event='press', handler=handler)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 386, in on
self.start_watching()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 400, in start_watching
self.async_poll.start()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 208, in start
if self.isAlive() == False:
AttributeError: 'AsyncWorker' object has no attribute 'isAlive'
Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 409, in stop_watching
self.async_poll.stop()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 213, in stop
if self.isAlive() == True:
AttributeError: 'AsyncWorker' object has no attribute 'isAlive'
Exception ignored in: <function Cap1xxx.del at 0x76690460>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 522, in del
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 409, in stop_watching
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 213, in stop
AttributeError: 'AsyncWorker' object has no attribute 'isAlive'

I've tried installing by running:
sudo pip3 install gfxhat
and
curl https://get.pimoroni.com/gfxhat | bash
and cloning the github repository and running:
sudo python3 setup.py install

I did a pip install first.

It appears the pip install installs Cap1xxx 0.1.3, pip show Cap1xxx gives me:
Name: Cap1xxx
Version: 0.1.3
Summary: A module to drive various Microchip cap1xxx touch ICs
Home-page: http://shop.pimoroni.com
Author: Philip Howard
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
Requires: RPi.GPIO
Required-by: gfxhat, touchphat, pianohat, ExplorerHAT, drumhat

Running
sudo pip install Cap1xxx==0.1.4
got the example code to run.

[Gadgetoid]

Thank you. I thought I'd caught all of these but Graphics HAT slipped my mind.

[gallanwood]

Thanks aunitt! Your fix worked for me but took some finding.
Seems like curl https://get.pimoroni.com/gfxhat | bash is unreliable.

[mmozzano]

@Gadgetoid - I've just recieved my gfxhat for a project and the install script still isn't working correctly - I had to manually install Cap1xxx 0.1.4 as mentioned by @aunitt above.

Another small issue, when running any of the examples you now get the following:

/home/user/hello-world.py:31: DeprecationWarning: getsize is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 10 (2023-07-01). Use getbbox or getlength instead.

Change -

w, h = font.getsize(text)
x = (width - w) // 2
y = (height - h) // 2

To:

l, t, r, b = font.getbbox(text)
x = (width - r-l) // 2
y = (height - b) // 2