On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:45:45AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Which I believe is to late. It should be done lazily (i.e the first > > screenfull of text should come up really fast) but not too lazy. > > Vapourware, vapourware...
? > As you have found with the maths preview, a document with hundreds of images > takes for ever to load up because we start hundreds of forked processes and > that takes some effort. That's why the run queue which would only start a limited number at a given time. > I implemented the "startLoading in draw" idea because I wanted to start on my > document when I typed lyx doc.lyx. I think it is fine when the size is known. So all it takes is to store the size in the file an take that as a hint. > Lazy loading is a GREAT goal but we haven't even begun to consider it. So what is it we are doing right now? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)