Re: widget updating issue

In article <5af8f$452d2b0e$404a99a1$3190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 11 Oct 2006 09:08:35 -0700 "cmurphy" <murphycc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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No, you don't need to use the VWAIT command. Instead, you need to just
enter the event loop each time through the rsh loop:

foreach host {host1 host2 host3 ...} {
# Execute the remote command
catch {exec rsh $host command} commandresult
# Update screen elements (eg. labels)
$label($host) configure -text "$commandresult"
# Enter the event loop to handle pending screen update events.
update idle
}
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And where it gets *really* exciting is that you can, with
a little help, launch all eight rsh-s *simultaneously*,
and have the results "light up" as they arrive, in whatever
order they finish.
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