On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> According to F J Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I've always felt that image drawing should be a background process like
> > spell-checking, though how easy that would be I don't know. Perhaps we can
> > make AbiWord multi-threaded?
>
> Not sure if multi-threading is a good idea, at least in the current state of
> the Art.
MS Word seems to use a thread to display embedded objects. If you scroll
into a page of embedded equations they initial show as square boxes before
turning into equations. BTW that delay is a bit disconcerting. I hope we
can do better.
Cheers
Martin