Uwe Stöhr wrote: > When exporting or viewing documents LyX's main window is frozen: Only > the status bar is updated and shows what happening in the background. > LyX's main window isn't udated so that when you switch to another > application and go back to LyX, you'll only see the frame of the window > and you might think LyX is hanging. And even if you don't switch to > another application you can't move or minimize the main window. > > This is annoying especially for longer documents where the export could > last up to minutes. I think this should be fixed for the next release, > perhaps only a refresh-call is missing. (This bug is also in LyX 1.4 and > in 1.5svn.) > > There's a bug report about this where it is additionally requested to be > able to continue the work in LyX while the export is running: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412 > > regards Uwe >
Maybe we should start thinking about some multithreading.... Peter
