Qt Eclipse Plugins not working

gbagerry · wrote on 16 Mar 2011, 14:08

I running Ubuntu and Eclipse(Helios 3.5.2).
I have followed the instructions to install the Qt (4.6.1) plugins. I can see the plugins in /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins.

When I do a New Project, I do not get a Qt wizard.

When I look at the Help Menu:About Eclipse SDK:Installation Details:Plugins, I do not see "Qt Project Plug-in" or "Qt Integration Help Plug-in". (I see these on a friend's working installation)

gbagerry · wrote on 17 Mar 2011, 20:36

Works now. I went back and purged Eclipse. I then installed Eclipse/Galileo. After that I manually installed Eclipse/Helios in my /opt directory and edited the Eclipse startup script in /usr/bin. I installed the CDT in Helios and then manually installed the Qt plugin.

hpng · wrote on 30 Jun 2011, 06:21

I am new to Eclipse.
I am planning to install the latest Eclipse (indigo?) CDT and then install Qt plugin.

First time I tried with eclipse galileo, I failed to get Qt to work.

Can you tell me why you have to install Eclipse Helios in /opt folder,
and only after installing Galileo first?

Why not install Helios without galileo?
You also mentioned editing the Eclipse startup script in /usr/bin.

Is there documentation on what to do?.
I find Eclipse website difficult to navigate.

WHen you install Qt plugin, how do you tell eclipse where all the Qt files are?

Is the Qt files in Eclipse/plugin?
Thanks.

kkrzewniak · wrote on 30 Jun 2011, 07:02

Just out of curiosity why use Eclipse (aka slug) in the first place? :P

hpng · wrote on 30 Jun 2011, 14:15

I am looking for a single platform to do various language development. In theory, this would save time learning another IDE.
I went followed thru a C++ example on Eclipse CDT, and it was pretty experience.

I do not think Nokia put much effort to making Eclipse-Qt integration seamless. I have seen many folks post plugin installation problem. I hope someone at Nokia read this, and do something about it. Seamless to a Nokia in-house developer may not be a seamless install for people outside.

I did start to use Qt creator IDE, and it is simple enough.

By the way, in Qt Creator, I cannot see the results of say for example QDateTime variable where I break. I click on the local variable, but it just show a letter "d".

Does anyone know why or how to see content of such an object?

loladiro · wrote on 30 Jun 2011, 20:32

[quote author="hpng" date="1309443302"]
By the way, in Qt Creator, I cannot see the results of say for example QDateTime variable where I break. I click on the local variable, but it just show a letter "d".

Does anyone know why or how to see content of such an object?
[/quote]

What you have to do is use "debugging helpers":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator-snapshot/creator-debugging-helpers.html . There are already debugging helpers for basic Qt classes (including QDateTime AFAIK). Make sure you have debugging helpers enabled under Tools -> Options -> Debugger -> Debugging Helper.

hpng · wrote on 30 Jun 2011, 22:52

It was already enable. I still have the same problem of not being able to see the values of variables like QDateTime.

tobias.hunger · wrote on 1 Jul 2011, 06:23

hpng: We use the Qt SDK and Qt Creator in-house for Qt-related development.

hpng · wrote on 1 Jul 2011, 14:25

Tobias:

Yes I am using Qt SDK download with Qt Creator.
I still cannot see results of say for example QDateTime variable where I break.
Debugging helpers are already enabled.

Any clue why I cannot see the values of compound or class variable?