Bo Peng wrote:
"auto-update" would be interesting.
I have heard the 'URL' idea, and now the auto-update idea. I am
interested to know how these can make the bundled mode work better.
Please note that my approach needs no change of how users work with
external files. Also, these will make the 'simple' idea of Richard's
complicated, more intrusive to the code, etc...
I didn't propose the URL idea and haven't had time to consider it. But
the idea that you could actually bundle from
http://someserver.com/image.jpg and then update from it, too, is really
quite intriguing.
The auto-update idea would be trivial to implement. Assume you already
have Inset::UpdateFromExternalFile(). Independently of auto-update, you
probably also want to have LFUN_ALL_FILES_UPDATE on the menu. This would
just loop over the insets; it's ten lines of code or so. But if you have
that, then all you need to implement auto-update is a BufferParam
\auto_update that, if set, would cause the LFUN to be called when the
buffer was loaded. Another dozen lines of code. So, assuming (again)
that we already have Inset::UpdateFromExternalFile(), auto-update is at
most forty lines of code, probably less. (I added a few lines for
lfuns.h, LyXAction.cpp, etc, and we need to read and write the
BufferParam.) Not too complicated.
rh
