Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ Why TeXMakerX cannot preview?

[netheril96]

As the title says,my TeXMakerX's preview just doesn't function.No error message,just doesn't work.Does anyone have a clue?
My TeX distribution is TeXLive2010.

[localghost]

Perhaps an issue that is better addressed to the maintainer. But he's a member of the board and might read this in the near future.


Thorsten

[benibela]

The preview is a little bit balky, but usually it works. But if it fails, it never shows an error message (perhaps i should change that).

The best is if you try to get a preview of something.
If you do this step by step, it should show a preview and then we can see what the difference is:
1) Create a new document as simple as possible (no package, but document class and document).
2) Save it and check if it actually compiles
3) Open the preview tab in the bottom panel (if it is not open, the preview is shown as a tooltip which easily vanishes)
4) Select a word in the document
5) Press Alt+P and wait a few seconds
6) Repeat from 4

If this doesn't work, change the preview option on the configure\editor\ page between dvipng an dvips.

[frabjous]

If this doesn't work, change the preview option on the configure\editor\ page between dvipng an dvips.

Thanks for this. I don't know what netheril's problem is or was, but Preview wasn't working for me either. When I went into Options > Configure TexMakerX > Editor, at first I didn't see this option, but then I clicked "Show Advanced Options" at the bottom and an empty menu item appeared. No option was selected by default, which is no doubt why Preview wasn't doing anything. In fact, the menu item looked like an empty box without a label. But once I set it to dvipng, the Preview feature worked fine.

(I'm running TMX 1.9.9a SVN 1060 with TeXlive 2010 on Arch Linux x86_64 for the record. TMX is not my usual editor, or I probably would have delved into this earlier myself.)

[benibela]

Thanks for this. I don't know what netheril's problem is or was, but Preview wasn't working for me either. When I went into Options > Configure TexMakerX > Editor, at first I didn't see this option, but then I clicked "Show Advanced Options" at the bottom and an empty menu item appeared. No option was selected by default, which is no doubt why Preview wasn't doing anything.

Thanks returned, that was a stupid bug. I rewrote the whole configuration storage from 1.9.9 to 1.9.9a, and this broke some options.