[PYTHONMAC-SIG] time.sleep() not multifinder friendly ?

[Steven D. Majewski]

 I haven't deciphered the sources yet, but from it's behavior,
I suspect that time.sleep() in MacPython is not very multi-finder
friendly. 
 I added some sleep calls in a loop in a program I was testing so
that I could slow it down enough to see what was happening, and I
was unable to switch to another app while this was running. 
 A sleep() that gave back some cycles by calling DoIdle() would 
be much more usable. 


BTW: 

    I made another change do EasyDialogs:

	ProgressBar.label( text ) is now a method, instead of a variable.

	bar._label is the instance variable that holds the text.

	A call to label() changes the text in the dialog window. 

	EasyDialogs.test() was also modified to demonstrate this
	behaviour by cycling thru a list of progress messages while
	incrementing the progress bar. 

	[ I'm using this in my new drag&drop file util to display
	  the file names as they are processed. ] 


  I'll wait a bit before posting yet another version to wait and see
  if I find the need for any other fixes or additions. 


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