I want to be able to print text to a text widget immediately. So in the below code example, what ends up happening is both text items get printed after the sleep. I want the print that occurs before the sleep to actually happen, then sleep, then print what's after the sleep. Do I need to utilize fileevent for this? Can someone give me an example on how to do this? Many thanks! 
use Tk;
$mw = new MainWindow;
$mw->title("Test");
$mw->Label(-text => "Pick an item from the list")->pack;
$frm_versions=$mw->Frame()->pack;
$list=$frm_versions->Listbox(-selectmode=>'single', -width=>0, -height
+=>0);
$list->pack;
$list->insert('end', 'Text', 'MoreText', 'TextityTextText', 'TextyText
+alicious', 'Textathon');
$textarea=$mw->Frame()->pack;
$txt=$textarea->Scrolled("Text", -scrollbars=>'e', -width=>45, -height
+=>10);
$txt->pack;
$mw->Button(-text => "GO!!!!", -command => \&go)->pack(-side => 'botto
+m', -expand => 1, -fill => 'x');

MainLoop();

sub go{
   $listselection=$list->curselection();
   if ($listselection eq "") {
      $todo = "";
    }else {
        $todo=$list->get($listselection);
   }
   $txt -> delete('0.0', 'end');
   if ($todo){
      $txt -> insert('end',"Let's see what you picked...\n\n\n");
      sleep (2);
      $txt -> insert('end',"You picked $todo...\n");
   }else{
      $txt->insert('end',"Please pick something from the list...\n");
      last;
   }
}

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