Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: >> Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> >>> OK, the problem is that BufferList was created in Application which is >>> created only in GUI mode. I wanted to create a "console mode" frontend >>> to cope with this and with all the lyx::use_gui test but I don't have >>> the time right now. >> >> While such a frontend would be nice e.g. for batch processing on a >> machine that does not have an X server it will not be possible to remove >> the lyx::use_gui test, at least not if the GUI version should still be >> able to process batch commands. > > Why is that?
Because even a qt4 frontend can be run in text-only mode. In that case no popups should appear, no GUI fonts should be loaded etc. > The batch command processing is done in LyXFunc and it does not need > this use_gui boolean. > There surely is a misunderstanding here. My goal is to remove the use of > lyx::use_gui inside the (qt4) frontend where it is just not needed > because we are obviously using a GUI. If you could manage to not enter the qt event loop at all if only batch processing is requested that would be even better. That would mean that we don't need a separate frontend (== separate executable) for batch processing. But it looks to me that there is still a misunderstanding concerning the fact that even a gui frontend need to behave like a text frontend if only batch processing is requested. > But I maybe see the need for an "Application::useGui()" that will return > true for GuiApplication and false for some future ConsoleApplication. That would not help IMO, since also a GuiApplication could be run in GUI-less mode. Georg
