Is it possible that "...process code..." takes such a short period of =
time that you don't see the text because it isn't displayed for long =
enough?

In that case a "fix" might be to include a time.sleep(5) before each =
setting of the text field's value :-)

regards
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  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Jean-Marc Matline=20
  To: Pythoncard-Users@Lists. Sourceforge. Net=20
  Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:49 PM
  Subject: [Pythoncard-users] Question about display


  I want to display  a status message (textField1) to show the progress =
of my process.

  The process is initiated on runBtn_mouseClick

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  class Unitest(model.Background):

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      def on_openBackground(self, event):

          self.components.TextField1.text =3D 'Idle'

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      def on_runBtn_mouseClick(self, event):

          self.components.TextField1.text =3D 'Running'

         ..process code..

          self.components.TextField1.text =3D 'other status message'

         ..process code..

          self.components.TextField1.text =3D 'end of process'

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  but only the last message is display 'end of process'

  How can display the intermediate messages ?

  =20

  Thanks for suggestions