[solved] QPushButton and setIcon doesn't work - icon is not showing up

[never_ever]

(Visual 2012, Qt 5.2.1 - add-in)

Hi,
I have my class Button that inherits QPushButton. I create, using that class, a lot of buttons and I want to set icon to that buttons.
Firstly, I wrote:

button.cpp

@
Button::Button(const QString& name))
{
setText(name);
setLayoutDirection(Qt::RightToLeft);
QIcon buttonIcon(":Resources/btn.png");
setIcon(buttonIcon);
}
@

But that code doesn't work. Something is setting to that buttons because text is moving to the left but there is nothing visible (if I comment code that is responsible for setting icon, text is align to center).
Any idea how to fix it?

[qxoz]

:Resources/btn.png is a wrong path.
What is in your resource file?

[JvdGlind]

Like qxoz said, you most likely forgot the '/' before "Resources".

[never_ever]

hmm.. but it still doesn't work.
I tried couple of combinations with the same .png file and I add it to the resource.

• I copied image to the resource folder in my project and I use relative path. - not working
• I copied image to the resource folder in my project and I use full path - not working
• I copied image on the desktop and I use full path - works.

First method may not working because I have folders names with space (ie. "c:\users\me\documents\visual studio 2012\projects\project1...")
Third method works, but I can't do it in that way.
Second method - I have no idea why it doesn't work

[qxoz]

Do you have a resource file (.qrc)?
"Qt Resource System":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/resources.html

[never_ever]

Oh, sorry, my mistake. I didn't noticed that I have only .rc file (created by VS while creting project) not .qrc. Now it works.

[ChimRuoi]

@never_ever Can you say more about this?

[mrjj]

@ChimRuoi
Hi and welcome to the forums
Its all explained here
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/resources.html
If you have other questions, please expand a bit on what your are asking then .