In openoffice.org 3 calc the display of selected cells is extremely slow, since it seems to involve GetImage and PutImage requests for the entire screen area containing the selected cells. This causes horrendous amounts of network traffic and slowness. (This diagnosis might not be 100% correct, but it is doing something like this.)
Nothing else in openoffice.org is affected in this way--only the display of selected cells in calc. I notice that setting the gtk theme to an inverted (white on black) theme fixes the problem. Apparently calc transfers pictures of the on-screen display and does a sort of shading effect on the selected cells, but when running with the inverted gtk theme, it does not do this, and simply inverts the selected cells instead. The whole idea of doing image manipulation to show the selection seems strange (drawing the cells with different background and text colours sounds much more efficient), but I will be quite happy if I can just get the inverted behaviour but without having to use an inverted gtk theme. How can I configure openoffice.org to do this? I don't really want to rebuild it because it is so huge (I am currently using the binary RPM packages from openoffice.org running on x86_64) but if there is no way of fixing this behaviour through configuration, then some pointers on what code to hack would be much appreciated. At the moment, selecting cells is essentially impossible for people on WAN. Even with the X terminal on 100 megabit LAN it is slow (but usable). All other features are very fast--if I can just solve this one issue, it will be great. I would go back to openoffice.org 2.4, but that has another highly bizarre problem. (After running for a while it would gradually slow down--but let't not go there now!) Many thanks for any help! -- Mario Becroft <m...@gem.win.co.nz> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
