calling function after gui drawn?

[James Stone]

Hi all,

I have a simple application which needs to contact a server every time it
starts up to update it's database. At the moment, the database access is
called in __init__ so it happens before the GUI is drawn. I was wondering
if there is some way to call a function after the GUI is up, so that I can
put information on download status in the GUI instead of output to console?

Many thanks,

James