Pause drawing immediately

[Göran]

SOLVED! ArcGIS Pro in fact pauses drawing immediately.

'Pause Drawing' button should stop current rendering and imediately pause. As the function works today it first renders the map and then pauses and greys out the screen. First rendering the map could make som sense if the map where then shown but as it is now the software spends a lot of computer resources to draw something with the only intent of turning of the display of said map. Considering that 'pause drawing' is intended to be used when the map is heavy or when the current scale is not the one the map is intended to be viewed in (and hence more tiersome for the software to draw) this hogs up resources that could be put to better use.

[KoryKramer]

Hi @Göran Are you working in ArcGIS Pro? The behavior you're describing sounds like ArcMap. Please clarify that.

Pause Drawing in ArcGIS Pro is designed to do exactly what you describe, stop rendering and NOT gray out the map but display what had rendered when you clicked pause (even though not everybody likes the it as outlined in this idea). That is described here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/navigation/navigation-in-arcgis-pro.htm#ESRI_S... If you are experiencing other behavior, it may likely be better submitted as a bug than an idea because we will need more details about the data being rendered and steps to reproduce the behavior you're describing.

[Göran]

Hi @KoryKramer and thanks for a quick reply.

Your absolutely correct! Sorry for that.
I where working on a slow system and the processes where running so hot when I decided to pause that I didn't realise the behaviour where changed since ArcMap. My previous experience in ArcMap combined with the fact that the processing didn't seem to pause for me (though the map drawing in fact did) made me speak out in haste.

My impression now that I looked a bit more careful on the subject (and tested with two different software environments) is that there is a slight delay in the pausing while whatever is already being drawn is finished and after that graphical elements of the layout (if in layoutview)? That seems very reasonable (and in most cases it really is a slight delay). In my case that delay wasn't slight enough for me to realise the behaviour where changed. I can see some background reasons both in the map in question, ArcGIS and the desktop I where running this instance on (a virtual machine - certainly not my favorite) for the process clogg up and hence I don't think a bug report is necessary. Thanks!

Hats of that you already implemented what I asked for 😉

(p.s. I very much prefer this pause behaviour compared to the total gray out in ArcMap even though I can see why people may have different ideas on what suits themselves).

Thanks for your reply.

[KoryKramer]

Thanks, @Göran Glad this works for you!