Subject: Re: commit: Fix lots of stuff.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 15:51:01 CST
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > It is taken care of in printing automatically because an entire layout
> > structure is created with the printer graphics context in place.
> > Everything is updated and correctly formatted. It's a "snapshot" of
> > the current layout. I wasn't sure if "page number" field should be a
> > "frequently" updated field or not. I guess I didn't do it because then
> > all the headers and footers fields with page numbers would be redrawn
> > every 0.5 seconds.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what to do about this.
>
> One thing that comes to mind is to have a multi-tier update, some
> fields would update every 0.5 second, and some fields, say, on
> every 10th occurence of the auto-redraw, etc.
> needsFrequentUpdate would return int, the bigger the value, the
> lesser the frequence of update, and for all non-zero values we
> would update if(!counter % needsFrequentUpdate()). This would
> allow some fine tuning; time field could be updated each half-
> second, word count each second, endnote references each 2
> seconds, while page numbers or page references only, say, each 5
> seconds, etc.
>
I just thought of this too :-) Sure. Do it if you like. Otherwise I'll do
in a couple of days.
> In any case we should have a method that allows the user to
> update all fields manually, just as you can in Word.
>
OK. Just something like your old code then. I can do this. We have just
have to make sure the header/footer sections get updated too. I can do
this if you like.
Cheers
Martin
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