Primarily I would also suggest doing IO blocking operations in a QThread, which can signal when it has finished as well. The reason it freezes your UI is because although it calls append on the text widgets, the eventloop will not get a chance to flush those requests until control leaves the for loop. They just stack up until then. If its a loop of a bunch of very fast operations, you could also stick a processEvents call in there:
app = QtGui.QApplication.instance() for i in aRange: some_operation() app.processEvents() But if each operation is not quick then you should still use a QThread On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:59 PM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <panup...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah Threading works. Thanks. I'll have to study more about it :) > > Thanks > > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM, zhang jian <zhangm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> you should launch the operation in a separate thread, and send signal to ui >> after each copy. >> >> zhang >> >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Panupat Chongstitwattana >> <panup...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Using Python to loop copy lots of files. While copying, I tell PyQt to >>> append feedback to QTextEdit >>> >>> for scr in sources: >>> shutil.copy(src, dst) >>> >>> >>> >>> self.feedback.append("Copying " + src) >>> >>> self.feedback is a QTextEdit >>> >>> When I start my script, PyQt would frozen up until all the copies are >>> completed before displaying everything back to be all at once. >>> >>> How can I make it so that each feedback are shown back to me in real time >>> as the files are being copied? >>> >>> -- >>> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >>> change your subscription settings: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe >> >> -- >> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >> change your subscription settings: >> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe > > -- > view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > change your subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe