Change how Page Layout window is shown (Feature #97)

Now clicking the Check Layouts button opens:

It waits for the image+boxes to be rendered and then:

It would be better if the Page layout Window is shown after the rendering.

It would be better if the Page layout Window is shown after the rendering

I prefer to show quickly the user that his action (click on Check layouts) has been taken into account, even if the window is not fully rendered.

Then could you add a progress bar or something similar to show that it is rendering? It is because the window remains blank for a few seconds and the first few times it happened to me I feared that the application has hanged! I am used to it now but this will be helpful for those using slower pc's. They will know that the window is being rendered instead of thinking that it has become unresponsive.

I don't think I have any "waiting clock" pointer shown during rendering as you can see in the above screenshot. I will check it again after I have updated AMC.

I have updated to Auto Multiple Choice 1.1.1267 (svn:1269).
Instead of a "waiting clock" pointer my pointer changes to a "throbber" while rendering most of the time (about 19 out of 20 times). The waiting pointer is dependent on the Desktop Manager so it isn't an issue but sometimes (about 1 out of 20 times) a normal pointer is shown instead of a waiting pointer and also the Page Layout window is not displayed properly before rendering when this happens.

Here is the screenshot for such rare cases:

(The "Go to:", "Back" , "Quit" & "Forward" do not extend to the width of the window before rendering)

But this may not be a problem of AMC but of the Desktop Manager I am using? If is it like that then you may close this issue.