forwarded message from raymond (more info on bug 2664)

2006-07-20 Thread David Raymond
More information on this bug, which has the number in bugzilla 2664: It happens only on a horizontal window resize, not on a vertical resize. It still exists in 1.4.2. Dave Raymond --- Begin Message --- Hello, Here is a rather odd bug in 1.4.1 running on Linux (Debian 3.1, i386) with the qt i

Re: How to eliminate the cmd.exe windows when lyx starts?

2006-07-20 Thread Bo Peng
I think that the best solution is getting rid of that console-hiding code, compiling LyX as a console-based app and then using a GUI-based wrapper program for launching LyX from the GUI. This does not look clean to me but does sound interesting. This is what I do with LyX/cygwin, using as

Re: How to eliminate the cmd.exe windows when lyx starts?

2006-07-20 Thread Bo Peng
> 1. lyx -dbg generates no output since there is no stdout to write to. > This may be OK though, since other native windows applications do not > write to stdout either. That is not OK IMO, because it makes bug hunting harder. It is easy enough to AllocConsole if needed. I am not sure if an con

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: I've been mulling over who is a good candidate for *Editor*. Someone with idle time on his/her hands? Somebody who can use a high fluting word like *eponymous* in a sentence sounds like the right kind of guy. I'm glad that you clarified the part about 'prepended' which

Re: How to eliminate the cmd.exe windows when lyx starts?

2006-07-20 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:58:16PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > I also notice that > > 1. lyx -dbg generates no output since there is no stdout to write to. > This may be OK though, since other native windows applications do not > write to stdout either. > > 2. a black cmd window will appear for almos