Jack Desert wrote: > It takes about two minutes for this converter I'm writing to run (it's > uploading .jpg images to the web), and I want the user to know whether > things are going well or not. Especially if errors are encountered, I > want to display a descriptive error message. What is a good way > to do this?
either call xmessage from script (if you are on *unix platform) or -- in more hackish style -- write your message into file f1 and then call "dialog-show file f1" via lyx pipe. there maybe some internal checking of return code from converter and error messaging by lyx itself, dont know. pavel
