Re: LyX Qt2 on Native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread Michael A. Koziarski
> Nobody seems to be actively working on a GTK port as far as I can see... I'm trying too. Honest! :) It was chugging along quite nicely until the GUII stuff from sixpack was commited, then work kinda got crazy. I'm in Michigan now (don't ask, just wonder :/) and was in Nevada last week.

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:08:34PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > Nobody seems to be actively working on a GTK port as far as I can > > see... > > Oops. What sort of toolkits are in consideration, then? xforms and > Qt, obviously. Anything else? *shrug* None that I know of. Except of course

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 7:08 pm, David Kastrup wrote: > > Nobody seems to be actively working on a GTK port as far as I can > > see... > > Oops. What sort of toolkits are in consideration, then? xforms and > Qt, obviously. Anything else? There is a gnome port too. Michael Koziarski keeps addin

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread David Kastrup
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:06:07PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > Strictly speaking, you are on shaky ground here in case that LyX > > comes with any third-party GPLed licenced software. In that case, > > the copyright holders of those software may in

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:06:07PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Strictly speaking, you are on shaky ground here in case that LyX > comes with any third-party GPLed licenced software. In that case, > the copyright holders of those software may insist that their stuff > be not combined and redistr

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread David Kastrup
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:26:01PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > > > But I don't think you are allowed to distribute binaries of your > > QT-Windows lyx. QT(Windows) is not GPL compatible. > > We can extend our xforms exception to Qt too possib

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:26:01PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > But I don't think you are allowed to distribute binaries of your QT-Windows > lyx. QT(Windows) is not GPL compatible. We can extend our xforms exception to Qt too possibly. Btw, Matthias Ettrich made a vague offer of a

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread Ruurd A. Reitsma
> But I don't think you are allowed to distribute binaries of your QT-Windows > lyx. QT(Windows) is not GPL compatible. Very true! However, Trolltech suggests that the GPL license has the option for an expection on the linkage to non-system libraries with a different license. This exception has

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread Moritz Moeller-Herrmann
Ruurd A. Reitsma wrote: > Hi, > > just to show you all that I'm quite content with the Qt2 frontend nearing > completion, here's a screenshot of 1.3.0 cvs on win32: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ps28/ruurd/lyx_win32.png > > It has been built using qt 2.3.0 non-commercial for windows, M$ Visual > S

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:11:51AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > How hot is too hot? > > You crazy lot ! Everyone knows that a temperature above 12 degrees C is > reason to strip down to no clothes and refuse to do any work in the hope > of gaining a "tan" ! Sure. And on Saturday nights temperatu

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:57:29PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > How hot is too hot? You crazy lot ! Everyone knows that a temperature above 12 degrees C is reason to strip down to no clothes and refuse to do any work in the hope of gaining a "tan" ! Though I did manage to burn my nose at glastonbu

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:34:51AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > > >Actually doing this and testing it out is something for a rainy day > > > > Well then we will see it quite fast, I have heard some rumors about > > the weather in England ;) > > Tell me

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:34:51AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > >Actually doing this and testing it out is something for a rainy day > > Well then we will see it quite fast, I have heard some rumors about > the weather in England ;) Tell me about it ! Though actually the last two days have bee

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Juergen Vigna
John Levon wrote: > Actually doing this and testing it out is something for a rainy day Well then we will see it quite fast, I have heard some rumors about the weather in England ;) Jug -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:08:28AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > If people want to do work on OS independence of course, they are more > than welcome I have no way of testing the results, and in fact I do not care too much... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:23:40AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > There are no X dependencies left. But there are still some OS > > dependencies on things like fork() > > But the primary goal for 1.3 is still toolkit independence? Yes, but we are actually there now - I can build a fully functi

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:28:52AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > Charming. How is GUI independence progressing? Any hope for, say, > > gdk under Windows? > > There are no X dependencies left. But there are still some OS > dependencies on things like fork() But the primary goal for 1.3 is still

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:51:40PM +0200, Ruurd Reitsma wrote: > It turns out that supplying a name wich contains 'Qt' gets rid of > 'freeware'. So I guess I'm stuck with 'QtLyX' Must the name begin with Qt or could that be anywhere? If so, I'd prefer 'LyX (Qt)' or something similar. Andre'

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:07:01AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Charming. How is GUI independence progressing? Any hope for, say, > gdk under Windows? There are no X dependencies left. But there are still some OS dependencies on things like fork() regards john -- "Be sure of this, O young

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread David Kastrup
"Ruurd Reitsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It means that Trolltech believes that programmers who forget to supply a > > > name for their program (?) are mostly inclined to write programs called > > > 'freeware'. > > > > What a strange assumption. > > > > So how does one supply a name then?

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Ruurd Reitsma
> > It means that Trolltech believes that programmers who forget to supply a > > name for their program (?) are mostly inclined to write programs called > > 'freeware'. > > What a strange assumption. > > So how does one supply a name then? > It turns out that supplying a name wich contains 'Qt' ge

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Ruurd Reitsma
> > It means that Trolltech believes that programmers who forget to supply a > > name for their program (?) are mostly inclined to write programs called > > 'freeware'. > > What a strange assumption. > > So how does one supply a name then? > Well.I have to find out... Ruurd

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:26:17PM +0200, Ruurd Reitsma wrote: > It means that Trolltech believes that programmers who forget to supply a > name for their program (?) are mostly inclined to write programs called > 'freeware'. What a strange assumption. So how does one supply a name then? Andre'

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Ruurd Reitsma
"Andre Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > What's that 'freeware' thingy in the window title? > > I am not exactly sure that this reflects the situation properly... It means that Trolltech believes that programmers who forget to supply a na

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:44:49PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I recall that you suggested that it would be possible to also do away with > the timer in the ForkedcallController, but I don't believe you elaborated. I distinctly remember waving my hands ! Anyway we should be able to have a S

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 15 July 2002 4:43 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:50:20PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > It'd be nice to move the spellchecker's interaction with the forked > > process into Forkedcall. This will need an extension to Forkedcall so > > that we can interact with a forke

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:50:20PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > It'd be nice to move the spellchecker's interaction with the forked process > into Forkedcall. This will need an extension to Forkedcall so that we can > interact with a forked process, not just receive notification that it has >

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:39:58PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:03:02PM +0200, Ruurd A. Reitsma wrote: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ps28/ruurd/lyx_win32.png What's that 'freeware' thingy in the window title? I am not exactly sure that this reflects the situation properly...

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:03:02PM +0200, Ruurd A. Reitsma wrote: > just to show you all that I'm quite content with the Qt2 frontend nearing > completion, here's a screenshot of 1.3.0 cvs on win32: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ps28/ruurd/lyx_win32.png That's SO cool ! Excellent stuff !! john -

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 15 July 2002 1:40 pm, Ruurd A. Reitsma wrote: > > > TODO: > > > -make a proper win32 fork controller > > The forked controller is only really used by the graphics code at the > > moment. > The spellchecker also seems to use fork(); if it's only those two parts of > lyx, another solutio

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Ruurd A. Reitsma
> > > > TODO: > > -make a proper win32 fork controller > > The forked controller is only really used by the graphics code at the moment. > In turn, conversion to a loadable format is controlled through a > LyX-generated shell script. Presumably this will also have to be replaced by > some sort of

Re: LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 15 July 2002 1:03 pm, Ruurd A. Reitsma wrote: > Hi, > > just to show you all that I'm quite content with the Qt2 frontend nearing > completion, here's a screenshot of 1.3.0 cvs on win32: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ps28/ruurd/lyx_win32.png > > It has been built using qt 2.3.0 non-commercia

LyX Qt2 on native win32 screenshot

2002-07-15 Thread Ruurd A. Reitsma
Hi, just to show you all that I'm quite content with the Qt2 frontend nearing completion, here's a screenshot of 1.3.0 cvs on win32: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ps28/ruurd/lyx_win32.png It has been built using qt 2.3.0 non-commercial for windows, M$ Visual Studio, the intel 6.0 compiler and stlport.