Angus> The improvement comes, of course, from the switch to Qt4. Angus> Note, however, that your hard work to get LyX working on Angus> Win98 would need a little tweaking because the changes we made Angus> to Boost.Filesystem haven't been propogated formward into Angus> the version of Boost.Filesystem used by LyX 1.5.
Abdel> Could you elaborate? There are lyx specific changes Abdel> in 1.4 version of Boost.Filesystem? Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details if you can't track the change down. Angus