Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-12 Thread Enrico Forestieri
I am resending this as it seems to have disappeared in some black hole. Sorry if this turns out as a duplicate. On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:11:12PM -0700, James Yu wrote: > Hi, Enrico, > > Thank you for the detail usage guide. However, I haven't gotten it to fully > work so far. Could you help ch

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:07:31PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > There's QFileSystemWatcher. > > That's for Qt 4.2 or higher, I think. I wonder how do they accomplish > that on *nix as, if I remember correctly, select() doesn't work on > plain files. Maybe they use something similar to fam o

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-11 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:46:26PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:08:12PM +, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > Yu, James writes: > > > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > > The solution is "just" to replace our handmade socket (or pipe) layer > > > > with a portable one. > > >

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:08:12PM +, Enrico Forestieri 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

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-10 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:11:53PM -0700, James Yu wrote: > Hi, Enrico, > Great you have tried something and succeeded. > Will you share with us the "utility"? No problem. Please find attached a tar archive containing an executable and a bash script. You can put LyXPipeWatcher.exe wherever you wa

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-10 Thread James Yu
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

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-10 Thread Enrico Forestieri
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&see us at the devel list > > >

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-06 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2007 21:20 schrieb Yu, James: > What I understand about this is that JabRef simply writes out the > citation entry to a file named "lyxpipe.in". The code segment is like: This is no real file. It is a so called "named pipe" or FIFO, but since on UNIX "everything is a fil

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-05 Thread Yu, James
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Yu, James wrote: I understand that in Windows environment the citation push function from JabRef to LyX doesn't work, due to some OS-level implementation problem. But, is there any way to get around this limit, like using a helper program, or ...? Has anybody found

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Yu, James wrote: I understand that in Windows environment the citation push function from JabRef to LyX doesn't work, due to some OS-level implementation problem. But, is there any way to get around this limit, like using a helper program, or ...? Has anybody found a way to achieve that? A

Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

2007-04-05 Thread Yu, James
I understand that in Windows environment the citation push function from JabRef to LyX doesn't work, due to some OS-level implementation problem. But, is there any way to get around this limit, like using a helper program, or ...? Has anybody found a way to achieve that? Any solution for th