REALbasic Tip: Making your user interface work during a long loop

[Geoff Perlman <geoff at realsoftware dot com>]

When you have a long loop executing, your application's user interface 
is inaccessible. In the past, the only way around this problem was to 
execute the code from a timer or a thread. But there's another solution 
that doesn't require changing code so much.
In REALbasic 5.5 we added the DoEvents method to the Application class. 
This method simply yields time back to your application so that your 
user interface is still accessible. To use this method, simply call 
App.DoEvents during your loop. Note that the loop will take longer to 
execute with DoEvents so only use it when you really need your user 
interface to be accessible during a long loop.
--
Geoff Perlman
President and CEO
REAL Software, Inc.