Le 26 juin 07 à 17:15, Richard Heck a écrit :
Mael Hilléreau wrote:
I have a feature request: Would it be possible to perform output
generation in a different thread so that LyX wouldn't freeze while
compiling? This would be particularly appreciated with big
documents which take a long time to come up.
May I file an enhancement at bugzilla? (I didn't find any dealing
with this)
Of course.
Done: #3928.
This is not difficult to do, in a way, and it should perhaps be
configurable via a preference. The "threads" are provided by the
OS: On Linux, it just means running the system command with "&".
The downside is that, as the code is currently configured, you
don't get the error messages, since the command is launched and
then we go on to whatever else we are doing: There's no "it's done"
signal....
You might even be able to hack your way to this by defining the
converter using "&". It'd be worth trying.
I didn't try yet, but it is not satisfactory due to no error
handling. As I mentioned in the bug report, a C++ thread would be a
better solution since we could then handle errors. But I don't know
much about how compilation is carried out internally, so there could
be some issues I'm not aware of.
Mael.
