Re: Is there any way to make JabRef push to LyX work in Windows XP?
Hi, Enrico, Great you have tried something and succeeded. Will you share with us the utility? Thanks, James On 4/10/07, Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yu, James writes: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: The solution is just to replace our handmade socket (or pipe) layer with a portable one. It should not be very hard to implement even for a newcomer in the LyX project. If someone's interested, comesee us at the devel list Another solution for you James is to use Enrico's mixed windows/cygwin version. Could you confirm that it works Enrico? Yes, but if you want that functionality from a native Windows app you have to use a workaround. See below. If I was not wrong, it did not work in cygwin! It works if you use cygwin apps. Native windows apps know nothing about named pipes. However, there's a workaround. Windows provides file change notifications, so you can tell a native app to use a given file as the lyxpipe. Then you monitor such file with a small program, and when the app writes to the file you receive a notification. So you simply copy what was written to the file to the real lyxpipe using a cygwin program (a bash script, for example). I wrote such watcher utility by modifying the example provided at http://www.relisoft.com/win32/watcher.html and it works very well. I can push citations from JabRef directly into LyX without problems. You need the cygwin version of LyX, of course. The only nuisance is that you have to remember to launch the watcher program in addition to LyX and JabRef. -- Enrico
Re: Is there any way to make JabRef push to LyX work in Windows XP?
Hi, Enrico, Great you have tried something and succeeded. Will you share with us the utility? Thanks, James On 4/10/07, Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yu, James writes: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: The solution is just to replace our handmade socket (or pipe) layer with a portable one. It should not be very hard to implement even for a newcomer in the LyX project. If someone's interested, comesee us at the devel list Another solution for you James is to use Enrico's mixed windows/cygwin version. Could you confirm that it works Enrico? Yes, but if you want that functionality from a native Windows app you have to use a workaround. See below. If I was not wrong, it did not work in cygwin! It works if you use cygwin apps. Native windows apps know nothing about named pipes. However, there's a workaround. Windows provides file change notifications, so you can tell a native app to use a given file as the lyxpipe. Then you monitor such file with a small program, and when the app writes to the file you receive a notification. So you simply copy what was written to the file to the real lyxpipe using a cygwin program (a bash script, for example). I wrote such watcher utility by modifying the example provided at http://www.relisoft.com/win32/watcher.html and it works very well. I can push citations from JabRef directly into LyX without problems. You need the cygwin version of LyX, of course. The only nuisance is that you have to remember to launch the watcher program in addition to LyX and JabRef. -- Enrico
Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?
Hi, Enrico, Great you have tried something and succeeded. Will you share with us the "utility"? Thanks, James On 4/10/07, Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yu, James writes: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > The solution is "just" to replace our handmade socket (or pipe) layer > > with a portable one. > > > > It should not be very hard to implement even for a newcomer in the LyX > > project. If someone's interested, come us at the devel list > > > > Another solution for you James is to use Enrico's mixed windows/cygwin > > version. Could you confirm that it works Enrico? Yes, but if you want that functionality from a native Windows app you have to use a workaround. See below. > If I was not wrong, it did not work in cygwin! It works if you use cygwin apps. Native windows apps know nothing about named pipes. However, there's a workaround. Windows provides file change notifications, so you can tell a native app to use a given file as the lyxpipe. Then you monitor such file with a small program, and when the app writes to the file you receive a notification. So you simply copy what was written to the file to the real lyxpipe using a cygwin program (a bash script, for example). I wrote such "watcher" utility by modifying the example provided at http://www.relisoft.com/win32/watcher.html and it works very well. I can push citations from JabRef directly into LyX without problems. You need the cygwin version of LyX, of course. The only nuisance is that you have to remember to launch the watcher program in addition to LyX and JabRef. -- Enrico
