Faster GUI text control

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> 
> no, it would mean writing some python code.  if all you need is a scrolling
> text list, you can simply use the code on this page:
> 
>     http://effbot.org/zone/wck-4.htm
> 
> (see "A scrollable list view, with scrollbar support" and, optionally,
> the virtual data modifications under "Displaying Huge Data Sets")
> 
> the resulting widget will update at constant speed, independent of the
> data size.
> 
> </F>
> 

Thanks for the suggestion.  I looked at that, but I need to be able to 
selectively change colors on parts of the text and I didn't think I 
could do that with a list box.  Am I misunderstanding that?