When compiling with MSVC on Windows, we can't rely on the returned timestamp

being -1 if a pdf file doesn't exist.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_2_0_X@38848 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
index 683982a2f78f7c72963321fc472f9a61a168c977..89a00c6609fc24b65032f5e679db191ada1a2191 100644 (file)
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
@@ -3522,14 +3522,16 @@ void GuiView::dispatch(FuncRequest const & cmd, DispatchResult & dr)
                                        addExtension(mastername, "dvi")));
                        FileName const pdfname(addName(path.absFileName(),
                                        addExtension(mastername, "pdf")));
-                       if (!dviname.exists() && !pdfname.exists()) {
+                       bool const have_dvi = dviname.exists();
+                       bool const have_pdf = pdfname.exists();
+                       if (!have_dvi && !have_pdf) {
                                dr.setMessage(_("Please, preview the document first."));
                                break;
                        }
                        string outname = dviname.onlyFileName();
                        string command = lyxrc.forward_search_dvi;
-                       if (!dviname.exists() ||
-                           pdfname.lastModified() > dviname.lastModified()) {
+                       if (!have_dvi || (have_pdf &&
+                           pdfname.lastModified() > dviname.lastModified())) {
                                outname = pdfname.onlyFileName();
                                command = lyxrc.forward_search_pdf;
                        }

diff --git a/status.20x b/status.20x
index a0e7d6b3be9c82e0c674f3519d63895e1ac94996..9a5d65d9e25f5a1334d6b943267007c6d933e43d 100644 (file)
--- a/status.20x
+++ b/status.20x
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ What's new
 - On Windows, allow to automatically switch TeX engines without the need
   of manually saving the preferences after reconfiguring (bug 7557).
 
+- Fix dvi forward search on Windows when compiling with MSVC.
+
 
 * USER INTERFACE