Qt-Components + Qt Creator Design mode

CreMindES

Oh, thanks, it's working now.

I had to download the Qt 4.7.3 sources with the SDKMaintanceTool, because it didn't cover all the files that "gri posted":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/5267/#33193 .
Then compiled it manually from terminal, because in my Qt Creator->Settings->Qt4->Tools, the QML Dump's build button is disabled (I don't now why ...).
Finally it's working but has got "this bug":http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-4634.

I will try to compile qt-creator from git later, and see whether it fixes it or not :) Thanks for you help :)

It's a little bit tricky to make qt-components work these days, but QtQuick and QML is quite powerful, so it worths it. I hope it will be fully supported soon in the upcoming QtSDKs :)

ckamm

So you can access all the module's types in the text editor now? Try ImplicitSizeItem, it's one of the types defined in com.nokia.symbian's plugin.

CreMindES

Yeah, Qt Creator recognize it and my QML file compiles as it should. Later I will compile the latest Qt Creator snapshot from git, and will see, whether the above bug disappear or not...

gronerth

I have compiled qt-components, but i can't see them in the Qt Creator design mode, any suggestions?

CreMindES

Does it compiled without an error, and are the PATH and QTDIR variables correct?

gronerth

Yeap, without error....the procedure that i have followed:

configure
mingw32-make
mingw32-make install

Now, there is a folder named "component" inside .....import/qt/

gronerth

what should appear in the QtCreator? do you have a screenshot? I just have compiled: git://gitorious.org/qt-components/qt-components.git, do i have to clone the components.git?

Thanks...

ThomasHartmann

Since the support for Qt Quick Components is not official (yet) in the Visual Designer, getting them to work is not straight forward.

The main problem is that for C++ to be able to load a plugin the compilers and Qt versions have to be compatible. We build Qt Creator with MSVC on Windows, but many people will use another compiler for Qt and the Components. So even setting QT_IMPORT_PATH does not work.

To solve this we moved the QML stuff to another process called qmlpuppet.
For Qt Creator 2.2 the only way to specify another qmlpuppet then the one, provided together with Qt Creator, is setting QTCREATOR_QMLPUPPET_PATH.

To build a custom qmlpuppet just build src\tools\qmlpuppet (in the Qt Creator source) with the Qt version you want to use and
set QTCREATOR_QMLPUPPET_PATH.

Another solution is to just build Qt Creator yourself with the Qt Version you want to use for Qt Components.

For the future we will make this easier of course.

CreMindES

Hmm, that was also new to me. My problem was, something similar, I had to recompile qmldump with my own Qt version, and copy it to my latest Qt Creator snapshot.

gronerth

I see.. it seems no so easy to achieve, thank you for the tips!!!