I have noticed a peculiar phenomenon with OpenOffice.org. If I have a number of documents open, minimise their windows to the taskbar, and then launch, use and quit other applications, when the OOo windows are restored, they do not refresh. (At the moment I have five documents open, averaging about 35 pages each.) In fact, when you move other windows around in front of them the other windows leave a pleasing trail of moire patterns or fragments in the OOo windows. If the text Navigator or Styles dialogue is open, dragging the mouse pointer over the task bars causes the buttons (icons) to pop into being.
For example, I am writing this message in Lotus Notes. Restoring an OOo document in front of Lotus Notes causes the Notes window's contents to be copied into the content and taskbar area of the OOo window. Dragging the pointer over the OOo taskbar causes buttons to appear but not drop-downs. If I guess where a menu is (say, File) and click on it, the menu drops down and, after a short time, the contents of the window refresh. It is almost as though the Redraw event sent by Windows is ignored, but when you initiate a Redraw from within OOo by hovering over a menu or button, this is trapped and a refresh occurs. So how do I stop this happening? The computer certainly has enough RAM and swap space, and when I use other memory-hungry applications like FrameMaker, with 20 or so files open, this problem does not occur. Regards, Hedley System data: Dell Optiplex G260, Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, ATI Radeon 7500, 512 Mb RAM, 22.5 Gb free space, swap file under Windows default automatic sizing, Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP2, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, JRE Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_02-b09) -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Support Specialist MYOB Australia <http://www.myob.com/> P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia <mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom> Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x 7421, Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 (c) MYOB Technology Pty Ltd 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
