XPM Icons Work in Designer but not in App

DougyDrumz

I have some old XPMs I would like to use as icons. When I set the pixmap to an XPM for a QLabel in designer, it works fine. When I build my App (using cmake), and run, the icons don't show up. I don't have this problem with PNGs. Any ideas? As a workaround, I used GIMP to create snapshots of these XPMs and saved them as PNGs. However, I work like to know how to get XPMs work in an App.

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

How are you trying to load your XPM images ?

DougyDrumz

Using the generated code (ui_MyGUI.h):

…
    QLabel *myXpmLabel;
…
       myXpmLabel = new QLabel(myTab);
       myXpmLabel->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8(“myXpmLabel”));
       myXpmLabel->setPixmap(QPixmap(QString::fromUtf8(“icons/diamond.xpm”)));

        gridLayout_3->addWidget(myXpmLabel, 12, 5, 1, 1);
…
       myXpmLabel->setText(QString());

yeckel

@DougyDrumz Hi this code is working for me, so your should work too:

void MainWindow::on_toolButton_clicked()
{
QLabel *myLabel = new QLabel();
myLabel->setPixmap(QPixmap(QString::fromUtf8("/home/libor/qt5/qtactiveqt/examples/activeqt/menus/fileopen.xpm")));
ui->gridLayout->addWidget(myLabel);
}

What's your Qt version?

DougyDrumz

It is 4.6.2.

SGaist

And does it work when you give to full path to the file ?