Qt is not working on a Mac

[goetz]

Hi, that font issue sounds reasonable. It would explain why it's only text that's missing.

[fs_tigre]

Any idea what are the default fonts Qt is using or where can I find the font configuration folder?

Thanks a lot.

[goetz]

Sorry, I don't even have a guess here :-/

[fs_tigre]

Thanks a lot for your help!

I checked all of my fonts and all of them are active. I also tried to find a folder that could lead me to the font in Qt but nothing.

I will try to find the solution and if I find it I will post it here otherwise I will just develop on Windows :(

[fs_tigre]

Ok, it least I'm not the only one having this issue, I hope this gets fixed soon.

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-6837

[miroslav]

This definitely looks like a broken install, potentially a broken qt.conf. I am using the same Qt Creator on the same Mac Os X, works fine here.

[fs_tigre]

Is there something I could do to try to fix it or this would be on Qt's end and I would need to wait for a fix?

It funny because I actually went and installed an old version (Qt SDK 1.1.2) thinking that that was going to work but nothing, same problem.

"I refuse to the idea that I would need to develop on two computers Mac/Windows"

Thanks a lot for your comments.

[miroslav]

I am relatively certain anything that breaks Qt at runtime after installing the SDK is local to the current user. What you could try is to create a new Mac User, install the SDK there, and run it. If you get the same results there, we need to look in a different direction.

[fs_tigre]

Yeah, make sense, I will try that and see what happens.

Thanks a lot for your help

[fs_tigre]

Thats it, I installed it using a different user and it worked, except for the error when closing the application but I can live with that.

Any idea what could I do with the bad user account?

Repair permissions maybe, I will try that...

Thanks a lot you made my day!!!!

[fs_tigre]

I repaired permissions but nothing, it didn't fix the problem. Any idea what could be causing the problem?

Thanks a lot.

[fs_tigre]

What could be the cause fo the application to run differently between user accounts?

Why would some accounts get different setting when the program was installed?

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

[fs_tigre]

Any one know what files from Qt could be causing the problem?

I basically tried to create a new user account but I have too many programs using databases, preferences etc that could be broken if I move to a different account.

Any help will be appreciated.

[fs_tigre]

Found and fixed the problem.

The problem had to do with some corrupted fonts and as soon as I recover my system and user fonts to the default the application started working fine.

I basically followed the steps in the following page...

http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

Go to the bottom of the page to the Reinstalling your fonts: section and follow the instructions there. The instructions in this article are to restore your system and library fonts but if you have fonts in your user Fonts folder move them to a different folder and move them back using Font Book, the reason I used Font Book is because when you drop them into it to installed them, Font Book actually verifies that there are no duplicates in the other Fonts folders which could lead to font collision or corrupted fonts.

Read the whole article to have a better understanding of how fonts work, that’s a very good article.

Thanks

[miroslav]

<random_officespace_quote>Man, that is f**ked up. Oh, sorry, carry on.</random_officespace_quote>

[goetz]

Thanks for that link. I've bookmarked it immediately :)