How to change visibility during a event script to hide the table that is updating?

[pturmel]

A bit of clarification:

Your event script runs in the foreground, and Java Swing is single threaded for all component updates. Which means your attempts to hide or alter a component will not be drawn until you give up the CPU (finish your event script).

Long old thread here, but still valid:

Update GUI via Asynchronous thread

I’ve got a script I am experimenting with that can take a lot of time to execute, so I now use the system.util.invokeAsynchronous to run the script in a separate thread to keep the GUI from locking up. I am using the asynchronous thread to copy files from one place to another, and I would like to show the progress of the file copy with a progress bar. How would I go about this? I am importing a few python libraries to do this. import shutil def fileTransfer(): path = system.file.openFile() …