avoid gui being blocked

[Aahz]

In article <3c9f7f9f.40054515 at news.easynews.net>,
Marcus Stojek <stojek at part-gmbh.de> wrote:
>
>let's say I have a Dialog (using wxPython) with a button.
>This button starts a function thats takes some time to
>return. During this time the GUI is not responding to 
>any action of the user. How can I keep the GUI alive?

Take a look at my web page, and read the slides and examples from my
OSCON2001 threading tutorial.
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