Load from absolute path

J.Hilk

Hi,
I would like to know if anyone has recently ( 5.12 -5.15) tried to load a Qml file from an absolute path, rather than from the resource system.

It works fine on MacOS.
But for the life of me, on windows I always get the "QQmlApplicationEngine faild to load component" message

I would like to know if I'm doing something silly, or if thats actually somehow broken 🤷‍♂️

I should have added code from the beginning ;)
gir repo:

fcarney

The original worked fine on Linux, but not windows. It gave a network error.
I think the url was being created like "c:" was the scheme.

engine.load(QUrl::fromLocalFile(QString(QMLSOURCEDIR )+ "/main.qml"));

The error I got was "network error".

GrecKo

It works here, try putting an example of what you tried.

I tried with this url : QUrl url(QStringLiteral("file:///D:/coding/untitled30/main.qml"));

J.Hilk

Thank @fcarney and @GrecKo for your time in testing this,

From what I can see now - I 'm at home now and don't have a Windows Pc to check - I was being silly!

I relied on QUrls auto deduction, of a local file path. That happen to work on unix systems but of course not on windows.

So changing my code from

engine.load(QUrl(QString(QMLSOURCEDIR )+ "/main.qml"));

to

engine.load(QUrl::fromLocalFile(QString(QMLSOURCEDIR )+ "/main.qml"));

like @fcarney suggested, should solve the problem cross platform 👍

It works here, try putting an example of what you tried.

I appended my opening post with a link to a git hub project, where the "problem" originated from

This should solve the issue, but I can't test it right now, I'll close the topic as soon as I verified it!

Thanks!

fcarney

as I verified it!

I know you need to verify this yourself, but I did test on both linux and windows 10.

J.Hilk

@fcarney ok 👌 I couldn‘t quite tell from your post 😬

I‘ll mark it as the correct one