QT 5.5 compiled from source - doc problem

bnlqtfan

Dear All,

I have one desktop and one laptop. Both run ubuntu 14.04 LTS with latest updates.

Recently I installed Qt 5.5 on both machines. Before that, the desktop had Qt 5.4 and the laptop Qt 5.3. All Qt installations were from compilation of source.

I have two questions:

In QtCreator, when I clicked help->Contents, I still have old docs, e.g. Qt 5.3 docs on laptop and Qt 5.4 docs on desktop, instead of Qt 5.5 docs. The QtCreator is right version, 3.4.2. What could be the reasons?
On desktop, when I open an item in help window, e.g. Qt Widgets, the document looks nice and neat. However, on my laptop, the figure and context overlap with each other. The figure is in front of text. I cannot read the text at all. How do I fix it?

Thanks,
Bill

SGaist

Hi,

Did you call make docs after compiling Qt ?

bnlqtfan

Yes, I did "make docs" and "make install_docs". After that, I saw all qch files in Qt-5.5.0/docs folder.

SGaist

Then, you should go in the Preferences and under Help you can add new versions of the documentation files

bnlqtfan

Thanks, SGaist.

I just found this. I went into it and removed all the 5.3 docs (this is my laptop). I saw all these docs were auto-detected. Then I added all the 5.5 docs in Qt-5.5.0/docs folder. The previous docs were sorted, but the new ones are not. Is there a way to sort it?

Bill

SGaist

What do you mean by sorted ?

bnlqtfan

I mean, in the contents, all the docs of 5.3 were in alphabet order. The new list of 5.5 docs are not.

SGaist

If you mean the index tab in the help part, I've never seen the docs not ordered. Did the indexing already run ?

bnlqtfan

Well, we can select "Bookmarks" "Contents" "Index" or "Search". I was talking about "Contents".

SGaist

Ok, that one. Well, I've never paid attention until now but mine's also unsorted...

bnlqtfan

SGaist,

"Index" looks right. I usually start at "Contents" to look for specific document. Unsorted list is kind of painful.

If this is difficult to correct, let's leave with it. It is better than just seeing docs of older version. I am happy to see newer version now.

My more painful one is my question 2. Can you help me?

SGaist

I don't know how the sorting is done so I can't say if it's a bug or not.

For number 2, the first thing I'd do is get Qt Creator 3.5

bnlqtfan

Let's try. I am working on it now.

bnlqtfan

Compiling...

I doubt this will help because 3.4.2 works well on my desktop. All the docs look nice and neat. We will see ...

Could it be some differences in the process "make docs"? I am also using QCustomPlot. That package has a qch file too that has no display issue.

bnlqtfan

Installed 3.5.0. Problem 2 is still there.

bnlqtfan

I found this link:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-30965

I don't know if my problem is the same. In my case, both QtCreator help window and assistant program have the same issue. Can anybody tell me how I can check whether I have webkit or webview compiled and installed? I am newbie to Qt. This is too deep for me to dive into.

Thanks.

SGaist

Look a the lib folder you'll see directly. IIRC when the docs are not shown properly, it generally means the Assistant was not built using webkit