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[alanze]

Please check out this test script (it's a .frm and .lua).
The trainer interface is not updated while a lua script is running.
I have a text and I change it's color to red, then I do a sleep
for 4 seconds and I change the color back to default.
The interface wil show only the default color, but the red should
be displayed for 4 seconds.
How could I workaround this problem?
(CE 6.2)
(Test.frm.cea, this is not a cea file, it's a form file so delete the .cea extension)
(form files are not allowed as attachments.)

This is the lua:

infoMessage=[[By showing this message the script
will pause (script real sleep) and the
graphical interface will get updated,
now the font color is red
and the checkbox is checked.]]

labelFont=control_getFont(CETrainer_CELabel)

function CEButtonClick(sender)
font_setColor(labelFont, 0x0000ff)
checkbox_setState(CETrainer_CECheckbox, cbChecked)
--control_setEnabled(CETrainer_CECheckbox, false) --uncoment this two lines to
--control_setEnabled(CETrainer_CECheckbox, true) --update the checkbox current state
--showMessage(infoMessage) --uncoment this to update the font color and the checkbox state
sleep(4000)
checkbox_setState(CETrainer_CECheckbox, cbUnchecked)
font_setColor(labelFont, 0x000000)
end

[Dark Byte]

add a "ProcessMessages()" Line in front of the sleep so the gui gets updated

Note though that ProcessMessages() can cause a click on objects in the gui if the user is fast enough , so it's recommended to disable the objects before calling this (or add in code to take care of that rare occasion)

[mgr.inz.Player]

@alanze

can be handy (paste2.org for Syntax Highlighting):

[alanze]

Thanks for the answers.
They've solved my problem.

This is my lua using DarkByte's method: