On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 20:30, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:28:55PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > > It feels like we're misunderstanding each other here... What can > > you already do? Have latex start in the background, so that lyx doesn't > > add something to the toolbar. > > > - Is it acceptable that lyx waits (frozen) for it? > > - Use a timeout after a certain time? > > it should timeout, but how ? it is non-obvious to solve.
You could open a busy dialogue with status info and a close button. If the user gets fed up, they can hit close and LyX will either kill or ignore the process (check box selectable?) Also this opens the possibility of a progress bar in situations that LyX has this information (don't know if this is applicable yet). > > status-line, but maybe the text there could be more clear by > > changing from > > "LaTeX run number 1" > > to something like > > "Waiting for: LaTeX run number 1 to finish". > > I agree > > john Darren
