On Monday 15 July 2002 4:43 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:50:20PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > It'd be nice to move the spellchecker's interaction with the forked > > process into Forkedcall. This will need an extension to Forkedcall so > > that we can interact with a forked process, not just receive notification > > that it has ended. > > In fact I think I have a comment to that effect somewhere ... > > > I suspect more and more of LyX will eventaully try and use Forkedcall. > > Eg, why should View->DVI block execution? > > This code may or may not prove useful : > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/oprofile/oprofile/libutil%2b >%2b/child_reader.cpp?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > > We've been using it sucessfully for some time > > regards > john
I know very little about any of this fork stuff. Clearly you know rather more! I recall that you suggested that it would be possible to also do away with the timer in the ForkedcallController, but I don't believe you elaborated. Perhaps you might do so now? Angus
