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Re: "formatting notebook contents" messages, why so many in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg80168] Re: "formatting notebook contents" messages, why so many in Mathematica
• From: Albert <awnl at arcor.net>
• Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:00:19 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <f9mrkv$ses$1@smc.vnet.net> <f9p5je$rc7$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

> I thought it happens during a long period of processing, so you would
> know that
> the program was not just frozen. BUT  i'm certainly no expert.

Not that I would consider myself one (experts for this are probably 
limited to the developer team at wolfram research), but I think this 
happens when the FrontEnd thinks it will take a while to rerender the 
stuff it shows. What I want to say is: I don't think this depends on 
long calculations within the Kernel. For me this happens often when I 
resize windows which contain many automatically generated opener-views 
and panels, and sometimes I feel that it takes an unreasonable amount of 
time (up to some minutes) so I decided it is best to not resize windows 
with a lot of dynamic/grahic stuff. Anyway I suspect there is room for 
improvement here...

albert