QT Designer Help System Not Working
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Hello,
I downloaded and installed QT Designer for Windows 10, but I did it on another drive, where I keep all my python stuff. The application runs but when I clicked help while using the Style Sheets property dialog, an error popped up that the assistant.exe could not be found. I fixed that by creating a hardlink because assistant.exe was in the root of the installed path. That seemed to have worked, but now the designer.exe app cannot find content from the web. It appears that the address it is reaching out to has changed. Is there an update where these are fixed? I am using version 5.11.1
In any case, I cannot find info on how to use the style sheets property on a control. Nothing I have entered seems to change the control at all, so this is how I found out that the help system had bugs.
Let me know if there is anything I can add to this thread to help diagnose. THANKS!
Hop
NOTE: assistant.exe was expected to be in subfolder "bin" but was not. The hardlink I created fixed that but the help tool reaches out to the wrong URL. Sorry for the confusion.
HARDLINK FIX - mklink /J "YOUR QT DESIGNER INSTALLED PATH\bin" "YOUR QT DESIGNER INSTALLED PATH"
replace YOUR QT DESIGNER INSTALLED PATH with your installed path, typically, C:\Program Files (x86)\Qt Designer -
In 2022 also faced this problem. When you press F1 in the program (v. 5.11.1), it gives an error that the assistant.exe file is missing in the bin folder.
If you create a bin folder and copy the assistant.exe file into it, the following error appears - ...dll files were not found. As a result, I copied all the folders and files from the program installation folder to the created "bin" folder. By pressing help, assistant.exe began to open, but there is practically no help (information) in it