Qt Creator and other tools

@cooked said in QtCreator could not load platform plugin xcb: The symbolic linked fixed the issue. Now QtCReator works as expected. Is worth nothing to say the solution feels more like a hack/temporary fix (as also pointed out in similar threads regarding xcb). should I open an issue? No need to, the issue is well known: QTBUG-88688 Regards

@cawlfj If you want to suggest ideas/improvements you should do it in Qt bug tracker as this forum is for Qt users.

@emazed I am happy that you resolved the issue. I had a similar issue, but without the No winrtrunner.exe found error. [image: JKMfL1z.png] I was able to track down the issue with the help of Qt Creators' Global Debugger Log window. I found that GDB was loading DLLs from my Git for Windows installation. [image: fFhVvmg.png] Upon further investigation, I found out that I had the C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin path in my Windows System PATH. Removing this path and restarting Qt Creator (or maybe even Windows itself) should solve the issue. [image: YsheaCB.png] This reply is mostly for people facing the same issue as me. Currently, this post is the second search result on Google when searching for qt debugging has finished.

@tseiff said in [SOLVED] editor seems to be ignoring my preference settings for tabs instead of spaces: If you are still banging your head like I was, and you are using FakeVim, check those settings. They seem to be yet another layer of override and you have to manually check "Expand Tabulators", even if you already specified this TWICE via global and project settings. Then go ice your head. Qt Creator 3.3.0 This is quite an old post and without it I would have struggled to solve this problem. This functionality is quite silly and should be fixed, or at the very least, documented appropriately.

@Nikeware Hi! This is user forum. If you want to contact Qt developers you should use their mailing lists or Qt bug tracker.

I got a hint from qt Bug report team about this. The missing part for me was the hint, that those images have to go also into "config" dir instead of meta and that they need to have all different file names.

Hi @Freebirds, it means you should copy the example to a proper writeable folder (e.g. below your home folder) and compile & run it from there. That is, e.g. what Qt Creator does when you select an example from the welcome screen. Regards

@JonB no project file; it's a CMake application.

Ahhh crap! The "template" in the .pro had a typo (had "apps" need to be "app").

@davecotter said in QT6 + multimedia?: is this the case: "we wanted to release Qt6 asap, so didn't wait until multimedia was done. we will finish mutimedia and then make it part of Qt6"... It is this case. https://www.qt.io/blog/add-on-support-in-qt-6.0-and-beyond

Yes, the Qt Creator about box still says 4.8.0..

Hi, That's a question you should bring to the Google folks.

@llothar said in QtCreators auto detection of test cases is doing it wrong.: or there is some other way then the forum to request feature changes. The forum is user-driven and have nothing to do with the Qt development. Bug reports should go to bugreports.qt.io

I wouldn't know about Google's C++ style guide, but Qt certainly have their own guidelines for Qt itself: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Coding_Style There is a _clang-format file used by clang-format in the supermodule, which should be in line with the standard: https://github.com/qt/qt5/blob/dev/_clang-format You're completely free to choose your own style for your projects using Qt, though.

Thanks, I am distributing my source code via GitHub and GPL. I think that so long as I do that, it doesn't matter whether or not I use static linking in so far as licensing is concerned. My code is open-source, at least that's my intent. I did find that I was able to easily modify the makefile emitted by Qt Creator to force static linking of most, but not all of the Linux system dependencies. Apparently, some of the OS libraries were available only as shared libraries and in some cases Qt libraries called shared Linux OS libraries so that I was not able to use all the available static libraries offered by Linux. Too bad that it doesn't appear that one can roll up a desktop app all into one executable with no shared library calls. I'm thinking this would be nice since then, it could be distributed to any Linux machine without consideration of the distribution or kernel version? Thanks, Phil

Strange, now it is working. Perhaps I only needed to close Qt Creator and reopen it. Marking as SOLVED.

@Pl45m4 It is still unclear - "who is on first". If I use QtDesigner in simple "push button, clear list" connection , the "code" is buried in XML .... If want to do "see" the code options in "edit" I have to implement both slot and signal in my C code before I can do the connection , using "edit" in QtDesigner. If I do that , I get the "connect code" in XML again. It is fine when it all works, but pretty awkward to implement. Definitely not intuitive and no fun switching between QtCreator and QtDesigner. It sort of confirms my PERSONAL opinion that GUI is not always an user friendly improvement when it is just a fancy layer over CLI. PS I do no have any "connect" in MainWindow so I still do not see the "edit " buttons. l will work on that , but beginning to share other's opinions that doing "connect" in QtDesigner is not very productive .

Hi, You should take a look at the Calculator Form example. From a learning point of view, I would recommend to start by reading the documentation associated with Qt Designer, dig in the examples and then start doing more involved stuff. You should also take the time to read about Signals and Slots to have a better grasp of what each is and what you can and cannot do with them.

Which slot are you trying to connect ? Advice: get yourself comfortable with doing things in code code. That's a very good long term investment.