[texworks] HELP: Integrated Tw LaTeX2e Help dialogue

[Paul A Norman]

On 1 July 2010 02:54, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30 Jun 2010, at 07:34, kap4lin wrote:
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>> Error:
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>> Script "LaTeX2e Help": ReferenceError: Can't fine variable: __FILE__
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>> Does this need any other script? Any dependencies? Is this windows only?
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> The Help script works for me on Mac OS X.
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> What platform are you using? What version of TW, and if self-compiled, what version of Qt is it built with?
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> (I suppose we could expose the script object's filename property in order to avoid the need to use this feature.)
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> Paul, that's very cool indeed! One thing: if you use Qt's Layout mechanism in the window, it'll handle cross-platform differences and resizing better. (When I first tried it, many button labels were clipped.)
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Thanks Jonathan I'll see to that.

> I also think this would be better as a non-modal Window rather than a Dialog, though I haven't experimented to know whether that's actually possible yet.
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Comments on this to your other posting.

> JK
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