Writing to text widget during runtime using Tkinter

Question

I used Tkinter to create a simple UI for my python script. It's quite a long program and once the user clicks on a button, it takes at least 5 mins to finally create the output Excel sheet. In the meanwhile, I want to use the text widget to keep the user informed of the status. But when I use text.insert(index,'Fetching rates...\\n') everytime, the text widget gets validated only when the whole execution completes and the cursor remainis in sandclock mode the whole time. Please help out.

Answer 1

As like most GUI systems, Tkinter is basically a single threaded system.So,when the operation begins in Excel sheet,your GUI stops responding.Try using update_idletasks() if you want to force the GUI to show the text.

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