[python-win32] timers?

[Steve Holden]

Jeff Peery wrote:

> Thanks, Steve, although I did a quick google with not much luck, what is
> PumpWaitingMessage()... all I know is that it has something to do with
> Com... is this a python module?
> 
Erm, actually it was a typo foir PumpWaitingMessages(), but second 
thoughts are proverbially the best, and I now believe that what you 
actually want is a PumpMessages() call.

This is a Windows API call. The documentation says "This allows an 
application which is performing a long operation to dispatch paint 
messages during the operation", which appears to cover your case pretty 
exactly.

You can find it in the pythoncom module (so you should be able to say 
something like

from pythoncom import PumpMessages

to enable you to call it. Please remember, though, I'm kind of stabbing 
about here. Much of PythonWin assumes you know the API, and I don't :-)

regards
  Steve
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