Suggestion for improving script by hiding cmd window and showing failure messages in a popup window

user202729 / tex-fast-recompile

A Python module to speed up TeX compilation.

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Suggestion for improving script by hiding cmd window and showing failure messages in a popup window #18

Closed SrikanthMohankumar closed 10 months ago

SrikanthMohankumar commented 10 months ago

I have a suggestion for improving the script in this repository. Currently, when the script is run, the cmd window is visible and failure messages are shown in the cmd window as "no output PDF file produced!". I suggest hiding the cmd window and showing failure messages in a popup window instead. If the script is successfully compiled, then no message needs to be shown.

This would improve the user experience by making it easier to see when there are issues with the script and by reducing clutter on the screen.

Thank you for considering my suggestion.

user202729 commented 10 months ago

Not sure if this is really in scope for this project.

The normal mode is meant to be a replacement of pdflatex executable or similar, which print out the log on command-line anyway.
You may prefer using some integrated IDE that supports latexmk -pvc (continuous compilation mode), then change the executable to tex_fast_recompile_latexmk, which should (probably) allow you to use a GUI to view the error messages.

SrikanthMohankumar commented 10 months ago

Okay, thanks.