UPDATE Once again, this is just curiosity, and not a work-stopping problem... I had left OOo with the cursor sitting about two-thirds of the way down the document (page 270 of 381). After perhaps three hours the Navigation pane had jumped to the nearest corresponding heading and the flickering/recalc/rewrite.... had stopped.
Now, the Navigator pane had contained the entire list of headings, but the highlight had been on the first one, until whatever process was churning finally reached completion. Is it reasonable that this would take almost 3 hours? I was reading, only, not modifying the doc, so no RE-pagination was going on. Maybe I have some default config setting that would benefit from being turned off. Anybody got a clue? Over in the Techwr-l mailing list, some people, who had previously tried OOo as a Word substitute, complained that OOo was slow by comparison. My experience is that it's been slow for some imported/filtered .doc files, not for original OOo files, but then all my from-scratch OOo documents have been short and only my imported ones have been long. Hard to know what makes a difference... Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: McLauchlan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:36 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [users] "flickering" nav pane > > This is a curiosity, as it's not preventing me from doing anything... > > > > OOo 2.4 on Win XP Pro > > > > I opened a 381-page Word document in OOo. It's all just text and a few > tables, except for a logo in the header of every page. > > Headings are numbered (down to Heading 3). > > I happened to have the Navigator pane open, as well as the Styles and > Formatting dialog. > > > > As long as the Navigator does _not_ have focus, it ... well.... > flickers. It seems to be constantly re-written, roughly every second, > initially. > > I closed and reopened the file, then left it open while I went to a > meeting, so it's been doing this rewrite-flicker-flicker thing for more > than two hours, except the refresh of the Navigator pane is now down to > once every five seconds..... -ish. It doesn't appear to suck a lot > of processor cycles (ticking over at about 6-percent when my hands are > idle). > > > > So, just as a matter of curiosity, does anyone know (or have good > plausible speculation) what's going on? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Kevin (who apparently is not having any big problems today) > > > The information contained in this electronic mail transmission > may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected > from disclosure. If you have received this communication in > error, please notify us immediately by replying to this > message and deleting it from your computer without copying > or disclosing it. > The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
