Help with RichTextCtrl.Refresh() and self.Layout()

[thebigonions]

Hello,
I have a RichTextCtrl on my panel that I am trying to show some rich text in. I have read in the rich text in HTML format. I am using a MVC format so my view (RichTextCtrl) is in separate code from my controller. In my controller I am trying:

out = StringIO()
handler = rt.RichTextXMLHandler()
buffer = self.view.rtEditor.GetBuffer()
buffer.AddHandler(handler)
out.wirte(content)
out.seek(0)
handler.LoadStream(buffer, out)
self.view.rtEditor.Refresh()
self.view.Layout()

My questions are: What does the Refresh() do? And why can't I find any documentation on it? What does Layout() do? And why can't I find any documentation on it? And most importantly, why doesn't my text show up in my RichTextCtrl? I have tried this in a python app without MVC and it works fine.

Thank you.

[thebigonions]

Ok, the problem is that I was saving my text as HTML. I changed it to save as XML, now I can read it in as Rich Text.