Why is Put not Putting?

[Ian Wood]

On 17 Aug 2009, at 16:53, Gregory Lypny wrote:

> I use the simple handler below to process large amounts of text.   
> Because it can take anywhere from a couple of seconds to ten minutes  
> to run, I like to know that something is happening, so I put the  
> very first statement in the handler, "Preparing for search..." which  
> is supposed to appear in field "Info 1" to let me know that the  
> thing has started.  The trouble is, that little progress message  
> never appears,

Try adding a 'wait 10 milliseconds with messages' line after setting  
the text of the field - this should force Rev to update the screen  
part way through the handler.

Ian