Hi all, I plan to add a "live preview" feature to Kile, i.e. Kile would automatically run LaTeX when the LaTeX document is changed, display the result and synchronize the cursor position between the displayed and the compiled document. A screenshot of the current state can be found at
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gE5coDhMnBHZlNfPQxFpjg (The red line indicates the current position of the cursor in the text editor) But for everything to work properly, a tighter interaction between Kile and Okular is required. So far, I've added a "ViewerInterface" to Okular which has the following methods: virtual void setMinimalMode(bool b); virtual void showSourceLocation(const QString& fileName, int line, int column); virtual void setWatchFileModeEnabled(bool b); // SIGNALS void openSourceReference(const QString& absFileName, int line, int column); I think that the interface could also be extended so that it would allow access to other actions of Okular, like the control of the zoom level, or access to printing. Also, once this viewer mode is enabled Okular shouldn't show error dialog boxes, but it could maybe emit signals so that the host application can take appropriate actions or display the error messages in a different way. Maybe it would also be a good idea to create a branch inside Okular's git repository which would hold the development of the new interface. In that way Kile users could test everything more easily. What do you think? Michel _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
