Michael, > IMHO there is no need to worry about the behaviour of Qt 3.2.1/Win any more. > > Yesterday evening, one of the guys of the Free Qt/Win32 team fixed the font > metrics bug. I checked the fix and everything looks pretty good. Even the > display of math formula has improved _significantly_. At least the math > symbols that I tested were displayed correctly and the math cursor was shown > in the correct size. No need for weird hacks. >
Yep, noticed the fix. Good to hear that it actually works. > IMHO we should concentrate on MinGW and Free Qt/Win32. These tools are free, > publicly available, and provide all ingredients we need to produce a native > Windows port of LyX. I always feel a bit uncomfortable when it comes to > support each and every combination of GUI toolkit, compiler, platform, etc. > People only want to use LyX on Windows, they certainly don't care about how > we produce the binary. > I totally agree with you! However, there are still more issues with the free Qt. And, things will probably come up after more rigorous testing. Besides the font thing, people reported cpu hogging and errors when selecting text. Most users were very happy to receive a newer LyX version, but quite unhappy with the free Qt build. So, letīs try to get the free one up to par! > I am currently recompiling the very latest version of the Qt library with > MinGW (gcc 3.4.2). Ruurd, if you are interested in the binaries, please let > me know. It may save you some time. I can also provide you with a LyX > 1.3.6cvs binary but I guess it is no yet ready for public release (e.g., > LyX/Win32 complains about not being able to write to "/tmp"). > Thanks, but Iīll wait until the MSVC patches are in, if ever .... ;-) gcc/binutils on windoze is just too damn slow...... BTW lotīs and lotīs of people will be happy if someone optimizes the binutils PE DLL linker, which is causing all the slowness. Ruurd
