There is a button in my pyqt gui that when clicked runs a function that does some lengthy math calculations. Inside this function there were a lot of print statements like:
print "finished calculating task1 going on to task2"
So by using print statements like that i didn't need to have let's say a progressbar for example to indicate program progress. I added a QTextEdit widget in my gui and replaced all print statements in that function with:
MyTextEdit.append('message')
where MyTextEdit is a QTextEdit widget and message is the message i would like the function to print.
Example:
MyTextEdit.append('finished calculating task1 going on to task2')
task2 #lengthy second task
MyTextEdit.append('finished calculating task2 going on to task3')
task3 #lengthy third task
When i click the button and the function runs, all calculations inside that function have to finish and then all messages are appended to the QTextEdit widget.
I thought that each time a MyTextEdit.append('message') is executed it would run immediately and the widget would display the message at that very instant and not at the end along all other messages.
What am i doing wrong?
I had the idea of doing this by reading this post
