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'

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