Lyx now starts and asks for reconfigure if no textclass is found (bug 2829)

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@20522 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

src/LyX.cpp

@@ -615,6 +615,32 @@ void LyX::execBatchCommands()
 	// aknowledged.
 	restoreGuiSession();
 
+	// if reconfiguration is needed.
+	if (textclasslist.empty()) {
+	    switch (Alert::prompt(
+		    _("No textclass is found"),
+		    _("LyX can not continue because no textclass is found. "
+		      "You can either reconfigure normally, or reconfigure using "
+		      "default text classes, or quit lyx."),
+		    0, 2,
+		    _("&Reconfigure"),
+		    _("&Use Default"),
+		    _("&Exit LyX")))
+		{
+		case 0:
+			// regular reconfigure
+			pimpl_->lyxfunc_.dispatch(FuncRequest(LFUN_RECONFIGURE, ""));
+			break;
+		case 1:
+			// reconfigure --without-latex-config
+			pimpl_->lyxfunc_.dispatch(FuncRequest(LFUN_RECONFIGURE,
+				" --without-latex-config"));
+			break;
+		}
+		pimpl_->lyxfunc_.dispatch(FuncRequest(LFUN_LYX_QUIT));
+		return;
+	}
+	
 	// Execute batch commands if available
 	if (batch_command.empty())
 		return;
@@ -630,6 +656,10 @@ void LyX::restoreGuiSession()
 {
 	LyXView * view = newLyXView();
 
+	// if there is no valid class list, do not load any file. 
+	if (textclasslist.empty())
+		return;
+
 	// if some files were specified at command-line we assume that the
 	// user wants to edit *these* files and not to restore the session.
 	if (!pimpl_->files_to_load_.empty()) {

src/LyXFunc.cpp

@@ -1200,7 +1200,8 @@ void LyXFunc::dispatch(FuncRequest const & cmd)
 
 		case LFUN_RECONFIGURE:
 			BOOST_ASSERT(lyx_view_);
-			reconfigure(*lyx_view_);
+			// argument is any additional parameter to the configure.py command
+			reconfigure(*lyx_view_, argument);
 			break;
 
 		case LFUN_HELP_OPEN: {

src/TextClassList.cpp

@@ -165,13 +165,15 @@ bool TextClassList::read()
 	}
 	LYXERR(Debug::TCLASS) << "End of parsing of textclass.lst" << endl;
 
-	if (classlist_.empty()) {
+	// lyx will start with an empty classlist_, but only reconfigure is allowed
+	// in this case. This gives users a second chance to configure lyx if
+	// initial configuration fails. (c.f. bug 2829)
+	if (classlist_.empty())
 		lyxerr << "TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!"
 		       << endl;
-		return false;
-	}
-	// Ok everything loaded ok, now sort the list.
-	sort(classlist_.begin(), classlist_.end(), less_textclass_avail_desc());
+	else 
+		// Ok everything loaded ok, now sort the list.
+		sort(classlist_.begin(), classlist_.end(), less_textclass_avail_desc());
 	return true;
 }
 

src/TextClassList.h

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ public:
 	const_iterator begin() const { return classlist_.begin(); }
 	///
 	const_iterator end() const { return classlist_.end(); }
+	///
+	bool empty() const { return classlist_.empty(); }
 
 	/// Gets textclass number from name, -1 if textclass name does not exist
 	std::pair<bool, textclass_type> const

src/callback.cpp

@@ -436,14 +436,15 @@ docstring const getContentsOfPlaintextFile(BufferView * bv, string const & f,
 
 // This function runs "configure" and then rereads lyx.defaults to
 // reconfigure the automatic settings.
-void reconfigure(LyXView & lv)
+void reconfigure(LyXView & lv, string const & option)
 {
 	// emit message signal.
 	lv.message(_("Running configure..."));
 
 	// Run configure in user lyx directory
 	support::Path p(package().user_support());
-	string const configure_command = package().configure_command();
+	string configure_command = package().configure_command();
+	configure_command += option;
 	Systemcall one;
 	one.startscript(Systemcall::Wait, configure_command);
 	p.pop();

src/callback.h

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ void insertPlaintextFile(BufferView * bv, std::string const & f, bool asParagrap
 docstring const getContentsOfPlaintextFile(BufferView * bv,
 		std::string const & f, bool asParagraph);
 ///
-void reconfigure(frontend::LyXView & lv);
+void reconfigure(frontend::LyXView & lv, std::string const & option);
 
 } // namespace lyx