I would like to use a status label to inform the user what's going on while my application is churning away on a long computation. So I have a little subroutine that I call every so often during the computation that updates the -textvariable associated with the label and calls $main->update() to actually update what's being displayed on the label.

The problem I'm having is that calling this update() seems to defeat the $main->Busy() I'm using to prevent the user from being able to take any actions while the calculation is running, so that the user may inadvertently interrupt the calculation before it's finished.

Is there a way to update my status label without allowing any events that may come in during the update to sneak around the grab that the Busy is supposed to be doing? Or am I just confused?

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