Icons are not visible when installing Qt application on end user machine(Windows) Why?

goetz

Closed thread due to duplicate post.

Please follow up in http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/3909/

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tobias.hunger

Just merged the two identical threads into one.

swhweng

Hi Volker
Thanks for your reply man
my icons formats are .ico, .jpeg, .png
why do you ask?

goetz

If you do not have installed the imageformat plugins correctly, your application is not able to display them (nor any other jpeg, png or ico image).

You must maintain the directory hierarchy of the plugins like in the Qt install dir and you might want to add the plugin dir to the library path (use "QCoreApplication::addLibraryPath() ":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qcoreapplication.html#addLibraryPath).

swhweng

Yea
sure
but the plugins are installed when I install standart Qt SDK from the site ( open source )
Now I try to include imageformats and iconenginer folders with dlls with my .exe and the dlls when I deploy
Lets see how it installs

goetz

Of course you must provide copies of that files in your installation package, as well as the Qt libs.

swhweng

Hello
I deployed today with /plugins/imageformats folder
It works only when I deploy may application exe, main Qt dlls as I mentioned and imageformats folder on windows
Also I looked at Process Monitor output for my application and I see there that my application uses also QtSVG4.dll, QtXML4.dll but I think it is because resources are in xml format...
How can I deploy on MacOS, Ubuntu, Symbian , Maemo?
Thanks
Pavel

goetz

[quote author="Pavel Mazniker" date="1298289603"]Hello
I deployed today with /plugins/imageformats folder
It works only when I deploy may application exe, main Qt dlls as I mentioned and imageformats folder on windows[/quote]

Yes. Everyone told you exactly this.

[quote author="Pavel Mazniker" date="1298289603"]Also I looked at Process Monitor output for my application and I see there that my application uses also QtSVG4.dll, QtXML4.dll but I think it is because resources are in xml format...
[/quote]

Yes.

[quote author="Pavel Mazniker" date="1298289603"]How can I deploy on MacOS, Ubuntu, Symbian , Maemo?
Thanks
Pavel[/quote]

Read the docs, search the forum and wiki, ask google and come back with actual questions.

For OS X: the docs provide sufficient information.

For Ubuntu: create a deb.

For Symbian, Maemo: have a look at forum nokia and the docs for the respective platform.

swhweng

Thank you all
I succeed to deploy on Win7 using your advices
I currently work on deploying to another platforms
creating .sis installer

http://realvirtualdevelopment.co.nr

Pavel

dv879

Hi, I'm sorry to bring up this old topic.
I had the same problem and thanks to this thread I've fixed my icons. :)
However I need to know if there is a way to determine which plugins EXACTLY does my application require, so i don't have to include all the plugins in my installation package?
Thank you in advance!

tzander

dv879: have you tried to install the pugins one by one until everything works?

dv879

The project is HUGE and I can not determine if everything works the way you are suggesting. And there should definitely be a more "intelligent" way. :)
I wanted to know if there are some kind of dependencies records, where I can check on which plugins depends my program...