How to open other QML files in main.qml (error: no such file or directory)

[fpartl]

Hello!

According to this article I am not using *.qrc files. Instead of it I have in my *.pro file this peace of code:

RESOURCES += \
    app/qtquickcontrols2.conf \
    app/main.qml \
    $$files(app/pages/*.qml) \
    $$files(app/widgets/*.qml)

In result I have very neat Project view without any Resources level...

but here is the problem! In main.c this works perfectly:

const QUrl url(QStringLiteral("qrc:/app/main.qml"));

but in main.qml this is problem:

StackView {
    id: stackView
    initialItem: "pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"     // I've tried "app/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml" and just "HomeFrom.ui.qml" too :-) 
    anchors.fill: parent
}

Specifically it is this error:

W libFaceHasherExh_x86.so: qrc:/app/main.qml:64:5: QML StackView: initialItem: qrc:/app/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml:-1 No such file or directory

Can you please tell what am I doing wrong? Thank you very much!

PS: I almost forgot... this is showing in my General messages. Do you know what is means?

/home/frantisek/Tools/Qt/5.15.0/android/mkspecs/features/android/android_deployment_settings.prf(78): contains(): Encountered invalid regular expression '.*\qmake_qmake_immediate.qrc$'.

[J.Hilk]

I think the issue may be that you wrote HomeFrom instead of HomeForm 😜

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Edit:
Protip to prevent such typos: Right click in your project tree on the target file, select copy path or copy url and simply paste it in your code edit sniped by @sierdzio 😉

[sierdzio]

@fpartl said in How to open other QML files in main.qml (error: no such file or directory):

According to this article I am not using *.qrc files

Quoting from that article:

This can be inefficient, especially for large sets of files. In this case, a better approach is to separate each type of resource into its own .qrc file

Anyway, coming to your problem:

initialItem: "pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml" // I've tried "app/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml" and just "HomeFrom.ui.qml" too :-)

It's always a trial and error thing with QRC and QML :-D A few other things to try:

• ":/app/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"
• ":/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"
• "qrc:///app/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"
• "qrc:///pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"

PS: I almost forgot... this is showing in my General messages. Do you know what is means?

I may be misremembering something but I think updating to Qt 5.15.1 fixes this issue.

[fpartl]

@sierdzio do you think 12 files is "large set of files"? Alright, I hope for slightly quicker build while changing my .pro file to this :-)

# QML resources
qml_pages.files = $$files(*qml)
qml_pages.prefix = /qml/pages

qml_widgets.files = $$files(*.qml)
qml_widgets.prefix = /qml/widgets

RESOURCES += \
    qml/qtquickcontrols2.conf \
    qml/main.qml \
    qml_pages \
    qml_widgets

Using your shotgun debugging method I've come to this results :-D

":/qml/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"              # invalid url: :/qml/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml
":/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"                  # invalid url: :/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml
"qrc:///qml/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"         # initialItem: qrc:/qml/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml:-1 No such file or directory
"qrc:///pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml"             # initialItem: qrc:/pages/HomeFrom.ui.qml:-1 No such file or directory

Do you have any other suggestions? It annoys me that I end up on such a basic thing... Thank you for your help.

PS: After using resources.files stuff my Project view looks exacly the same (I've just renamed app to qml). :-)

PS2: Maybe it could help if I show you my build settings. I am not sure the rcc is called but as I wrote in the main.cpp the file is found... :-/

[J.Hilk]

I think the issue may be that you wrote HomeFrom instead of HomeForm 😜

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Edit:
Protip to prevent such typos: Right click in your project tree on the target file, select copy path or copy url and simply paste it in your code edit sniped by @sierdzio 😉

[sierdzio]

@fpartl said in How to open other QML files in main.qml (error: no such file or directory):

Do you have any other suggestions? It annoys me that I end up on such a basic thing... Thank you for your help.

PS: After using resources.files stuff my Project view looks exacly the same (I've just renamed app to qml). :-)

You can right-click on any QML file and select "Copy URL" or "Copy Path" - Qt Creator will automatically provide you with a correct path.

[fpartl]

@sierdzio said in How to open other QML files in main.qml (error: no such file or directory):

You can right-click on any QML file and select "Copy URL" or "Copy Path" - Qt Creator will automatically provide you with a correct path.

I do not have this option in my context menu when I click on any .qml file. :-/ I have the last version of QtCreator.

[J.Hilk]

@fpartl

I have the "last" version of QtC as well, its definitely there

may only be the case, if the file is inside your resource file/system 🤷‍♂️ Haven't checked that

[sierdzio]

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[fpartl]

@J-Hilk OMG I am such an idiot... 4 hours of Googling... :D Thank you for saving my life! In conclusion of others the original code I've posted is not working only because of this typing laxity.