setting labels two time in a function

hy, iwant to set a message in a label while my program does an action that can sometimes take some time so the user knows the program is working for a while. as i did experience problem with this i made a test. i set the label and let the program sleep for a long time so i can see the message in any case. parallel, to be sure my info variable is really filled with content i put it out to the commend line. the code looks like this: $infolabel->set_text($infotext[1]); echo "infotext 1 ist:" . $infotext[1]; sleep(10); later, after my actions are done, i change the label again with $infolabel->set_text($infotext[2]); this one works fine. plus, on the comand line the output is shown, but i never get to see the first text-cahge in my label, only the second one. any reasons for this? could it be that calls to gtk object methods get only executed after a callback function is finished? any idea how this can be solved? henning -- Henning Sprang, henning@sprang.de, http://www.sprang.de/