[Texmacs-dev] Re: wintexmacs: ghostscript and images, keyboard

[Dan Martens]

Hi Stephan,

I have been aware of the ghostscript problems for a while.  I just today began 
fixing the image support in texmacs.  I have decided that the ghostscript 
approach is far too much of a headache to deal with, so I am ripping it out and 
in place I have added support from a library which I found that reads almost 
all image types in existence.  It seems to be working fairly well so far, 
although there are still bugs.  However, I can now bring up images in TeXmacs 
for windows!!

As for the keyboard, I know about that one too.  I was in a rush to get the 
damn keys working so I hacked in a mapping, but apparently it needs some 
adjustment.  I will get to that as soon as I get this ghostscript problem 
solved.

Dan
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:05:38  
 Stephan Mucha wrote:
>Hi dan,
>
>since i have it up i've tried some things with the windows version and
>encountered the following problems:
>
>-ghostscript pipe for showing images doesn't work,
>-keyboard layout is strange.
>
>i have no much insight into the function of ghostschript, but i read
>some things. the ghostscript win device for screen output is
>"mswindll", which works on the command line, if the "=" between
>"DEVICE" and "mswindll" is changed to "#". I wrote an batch-file
>containing the line
>"D:\Programme\ghostscript\gs7.04\bin\gswin32c.exe %1 %2#mswindll  %4 %5 %6 %7 
>%8 %9"
>which reflects the needed ghostscript command conversion.
>Unfortunately it doesn't work for wintexmacs. Maybe it has something
>to do with the temporary files texmacs uses (i had a look to the
>original source code, especially to Window/X/x_drawable.cc an related
>files), because the log file (produced with --debuglog option)
>containes some hints that some temp file weren't found (at starting
>process). i attached the file.
>
>the keyboard layout is quite strange, because i get german menus
>(which is quite ok for me :-) ), but all non standard keys like
>parentheses and so on are not on the right places. the layout i get
>is shurely not the standard (us-english) one, because i know for many
>keys, which results they should yield if the english layout is applied.
>
>could you please have a look at these issues?
>thanks a lot for your work!
>
>regards,
>
>stephan