On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:47:27PM +1100, Ben Stanley wrote:
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/
>
> fam is implemented efficiently by utilising a kernel mechanism (imon)
> which provides the initial callback notification that a file has changed.
>
> I propose that we could use this mechanism to automatically update the
> preview figures in LyX when they are changed on disk. This would be done
> by modifying InsetFigure to register the file it is displaying with fam.
> If fam notifies LyX that the file has changed, the figure would be re-drawn.
this makes good sense to me (I assume it uses dnotify API on Linux ?)
Note that InsetFigure is dead though ;)
regards
john
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