okay, this may seem a bit superfluous, but would be a very nice animation effect to have in one's toolbox..
For those that don't know what a "write on" animation is,...you probably see them on TV everyday,.. but it's when a whole sentence is displayed a character at time, with just a fraction of a second delay in-between each character... Thought this would be trivial at first,...but there's something going on in Qt that senses there's about to be a bunch of fast updates, so it waits until everything is done and updates *once*, which defeats the purpose.... Here's how the madness unfolds,.. text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet" accum = QString("") for i in range(0, len(text)): accum = accum + text[i] self.label.setText(accum) self.label.update() sleep(.1) So, I accumulate the string char by char calling update() and sleep() at each interval,...a button triggers this function. But instead of seeing the effect progress as expected, it just display the whole string at once... Anybody got any ideas how to achieve this effect ? I've attached a short example script... Cheers, Jim http://python.6.n6.nabble.com/file/n4518350/writeon_v01.py writeon_v01.py -- View this message in context: http://python.6.n6.nabble.com/Text-write-on-effect-tp4518350p4518350.html Sent from the PyQt mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt