Subject: Re: Feature suggestion. Word Count on import.
From: Justin Bradford (justin@ukans.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 22:07:53 CDT
> I'm currently testing Jamie's new OLE-enabled wv. I'm importing a deadly
> Word file. So far the import has taken about 15 minutes. I'm not sure if
> I'm in an infinate loop. Anyway even on less deadly files loading files
> often takes a long time.
Are you opening them with a debug version of AbiWord?
If so, libwv churns out the debug info and contributes massively to the
load time. Piping the output to a file can dramatically increase the load
time.
But, regardless, that's much too long of a load time. It's possible there
are some processing errors. Sometimes strange undocumented fields trip the
importer up and cause it to do really stupid things, like try to read a couple
nonexistent gigabytes from the file.
If you want to send me the file, I'll take a look at it some time and see
if there's anything strange going on.
> What do people think about popping up an auto-updating Word Count dialog
> during a file loading so we can watch the load progress?
In an ideal world, we shouldn't need it, as the document would load
reasonable fast. In the meantime, some kind of dialog would be fine with
me.
Justin
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