Newbie doing lengthy initialization with Tkinter gui

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In article <1155477685.072381.235320 at 75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, 
jmdeschamps at gmail.com wrote:
> Tkinter also has a timer-type function called *after*. Use this to call
> your init function just befrore the mainloop call. You gui wil show up
> and you can then update it to show progress as you wish
> No neep for thread or Tix modules...!

Thanks for the great example! I hoped that there would be a simple way 
to show the progress and this is just what I was looking for. 

Pasi