🚀 go-pugleaf

Actually, file this under "Trivia: Little Known 'Features'"

If you are using the TRACER module in conjunction with DISPLAY TRACKER,
and it's taking a while to compute and you want to see how far along 
the tracing is going, cause the DISPLAY TRACKER window to get an expose 
event (iconify it, un-iconify it or hide it and re-show it).  Because the 
output from TRACER is in shared memory, all of the currently rendered
portion is overwriting the existing buffer.  You can use this technique
for tracking the progress of the module.

This trick does not work if (a) it's the first time through, (b) you've
just changed the output image size from TRACER, (c) the modules are
on different machines, or (d) you use DISPLAY IMAGE or the Image
Viewer. 

Ok, I know this is not an earth-shattering discovery, but I use it to 
reduce the frustration factor, so I thought I'd share it...

larryg

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