great minds of maya land, question for you. i have noticed that when i execute a complex render from within maya 6.5 complete on win xp that if i get an im or switch to another app mid-render that the render screen goes white and i can no longer track progress. essentially the maya app stops visually updating itself so that even the info line is of no service. probably bc the processor is busy i know. not really a problem unitl it is a problem, meaning that usually the render completes and things go back to normal, but i do some complex rendering and sometimes maya just never gets back to me bc of something i do wrong in the setup. but that leaves me wondering if i should just stop maya and start over or let it chug away.
so my question is "how can i get maya to let me know if it is still rendering or hung-up?" btw the output window is of no use in this sitch.
thx in advance