Michael Yanowitz top posted: > Presently what happens is that the script takes over and all the buttons on the GUI disappear >as the GUI is not given any cpu time to refresh or check if any activity in the dialog.
Yuk! you may have to run the script in a thread then, to preserve the GUI mainloop. Check out the Threading and Thread modules - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list