RE: Updating text during an event

> The problem is that the SVG display does not update the "status" text
> element with this message until the entire event handler has executed,
> i.e. including the text-hiding operations.

The SVGSVGElement interface from the DOM provides a method called
'forceRedraw()'. You should be able to use this method on the outermost svg
element for instance.

Thierry.