Qt assistant

niftybytes · wrote on 26 May 2011, 02:19

I feel dumb for asking this but I lost my Qt assistant after I uninstalled the Qt library to replace it with sdk. My question is where can I download Qt assistant without having to download the Qt library. Thanks in advance.

Eddy · wrote on 26 May 2011, 06:10

You uninstalled qt library.
Then you installed the sdk? So qt assistant should be there.

Did you search your system for the qt assistant executable? What is your Os?

vinb · wrote on 26 May 2011, 06:32

Hi all,
sorry to break in this thread, but i have the same "problem".
After deleting the old and installling the new sdk, assistant doesnt work anymore.
The binaire is precent, but doesnt react when running it.
I'm working at a linux distro. Ubuntu 10.4.
I work around it using creator for reading the docs.

niftybytes · wrote on 26 May 2011, 14:10

I ended up reinstalling the Qt library to get assistant back. I had leftover files in my Qt library folder that I found which had vs2008 projects in there was a assistant project. I tried to build it but could not get it to work. Thanks for the reply.

styne666 · wrote on 27 Oct 2011, 11:25

Same scenario, but on Windows 7 64.

Had Qt installed, removed and installed Qt SDK. Now the assistant executable is present but loads without any content.

sierdzio · wrote on 27 Oct 2011, 11:31

If I remember well, Qt Assistant is not being installed by default. Check in Qt SDK Maintenance Tool, whether you have Assistant included in your installation - if not, just check the box, wait for it to install, and use it :)

styne666 · wrote on 27 Oct 2011, 11:42

Actually, I had over-ridden the default option. The problem is that it installed without any link in the start menu or references to the documentation files.

Solution:

locate the correct "assistant.exe" in your install directory. ("C:\Qt\Desktop\Qt\4.7.4\mingw" for me)

Run it, and go to "Edit" menu > "Preferences..." > "Documentation" tab > "Add..."

Select all the ".qch" files in your documentation folder (In my case "C:\Qt\Documentation"

Click "Open", then "OK"

Additionally, in Windows 7 you'll have to choose to pin the correct assistant.exe to the start menu (or link to it somewhere) as it doesn't get created as a link, even if you asked it to be installed!

smiffy · wrote on 2 Feb 2012, 13:07

Hmmm... I'm having a similar problem with the 4.8 libraries under Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Assistant and Designer have stopped working since I installed the 4.8 libraries. Clicking the icons on the Dock causes them to bounce but nothing else happens. I ran /Developer/Applications/Qt/Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Assistant manually and got the following error message:

dyld: Symbol not found: _kCFWebServicesProviderDefaultDisplayNameKey
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/QtWebKit.framework/Versions/4/QtWebKit
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation

Trace/BPT trap

As far as I can remember I've never installed the SDK so I wasn't expecting to have to install it this time. Can anyone shed any light on this or tell me where to download Assistant & Designer?

Thanks

Smiffy

smiffy · wrote on 2 Feb 2012, 14:09

Ah-ha! I've just found a bug report #QTBUG-23157 which seems to indicate that the binaries of tools like Assistant & Designer will only work under Lion (10.7.x) so I'm stymied until I can upgrade to Lion which I can't at the moment until a certain piece of software is built to run without the PPC emulator. Back to 4.7 libraries... (if I can find them).