Ticket #9376: Limit text width in the editor window (non-fullscreen mode)

[racoon]

On 2020-08-01 12:43, Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 01.08.2020 um 09:48 schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
>>
>> I am trying to fix Ticket #9376. My attempt so far is attached. However, I have hit a little road block in that the clang compiler does not give me useful information (for me at least):
>>
>> CXXLD    lyx
>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>   "std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > lyx::convert<std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> >, lyx::Length>(lyx::Length)", referenced from:
>>       lyx::LyXRC::write(std::__1::basic_ostream<char, std::__1::char_traits<char> >&, bool, std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > const&) const in liblyxcore.a(LyXRC.o)
>> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
>> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
>> make[4]: *** [lyx] Error 1
>> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> ERROR: Cannot build and install lyx for x86_64.
>>
>>
>> Maybe someone knows what I might be doing wrong?
>
> IMO, it’s the change from int for full_screen_width to Length for screen_width.
> In LyXRC::write() the operator << is not implemented for Length, probably.

Sounds plausible. So, short of implementing << for length, I should
probably store the length in some other format, like string. Length
seems to have a function for that: asString().

Daniel