Re: [Qt-creator] Qt Creator portable for Windows
Qt looks for plugins in a path predetermined at build time. I think you can override this behavior with a qt.conf file in the same directory as the .exe file, but I don't know the syntax of this file and you'd have to put that file alongside every .exe generated by Creator as well. (It may be possible to do this by hacking on qt.prf? I'm not sure.) /s/ Adam On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Sergio de la Cruz Rodriguez ser...@electrica.cujae.edu.cu wrote: Hi: I'm using Qt/QtCreator to teach Medical Informatics to about 50 students. They are working these days in their final project. Some of them can only use PC's without admin rights at college facilities. If they are lucky they can find someone with admin rights that can install Qt Creator for them but when they log in their guest accounts they find that they have to tweak the environment variables for the guest account (as in qtcreatordist/bin/qtenv.bat) so Qt Creator can successfully compile a project. This seems to happen whatever version of Qt Creator you use. Why there is no Install for all users checkbox in the Qt Creator installer? It would be very useful. I have tried to make for them a portable version of Qt Creator (copying the folder Qt/20xx.xx/ and its subfolders). Even after changing the environment variables Qt Creator doesn't run (complains about misconfigured settings), neither does Qt Assistant (could not load sqlite module), neither does Qt Demo (memory at 000 not writable). The Qt Designer runs OK. If you run the portable version in a PC that already has Qt Creator installed it runs OK too. Am I missing something? Can you help me with this? I have other concerns about using Qt/Qt Creator in education but I will address them later. Regards, Sergio Participe en la 15 Convención Científica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, del 29 de noviembre al 3 de diciembre de 2010 La Ingeniería y la Arquitectura por un Futuro Sustentable Palacio de Convenciones, La Habana, Cuba http://www.cujae.edu.cu/eventos/convencion ___ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator ___ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
Re: [Qt-creator] Qt Creator portable for Windows
Hello, As Coda said, it's easy to make Qt Creator portable but what about Qt? Qt installer in windows needs absolute paths (at the end of installing process you'll find that the installer execute patches for absolute paths) so making Qt it self portable is exhausted procedure but I fixed this issue easy when I used TrueCrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ because it's creating virtual hard drive on your portable media thus you can install Qt and Qt Creator on you portable media then you can load it anywhere you go. If you don't want to use TrueCrypt try this instead: Create patch file (*.bat) and include *subst* command for creating virtual drive from specific folder (you can point to relative path of folder by using %CD% constant). On 08/06/2010 11:46 م, Coda Highland wrote: Qt looks for plugins in a path predetermined at build time. I think you can override this behavior with a qt.conf file in the same directory as the .exe file, but I don't know the syntax of this file and you'd have to put that file alongside every .exe generated by Creator as well. (It may be possible to do this by hacking on qt.prf? I'm not sure.) /s/ Adam On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Sergio de la Cruz Rodriguez ser...@electrica.cujae.edu.cu wrote: Hi: I'm using Qt/QtCreator to teach Medical Informatics to about 50 students. They are working these days in their final project. Some of them can only use PC's without admin rights at college facilities. If they are lucky they can find someone with admin rights that can install Qt Creator for them but when they log in their guest accounts they find that they have to tweak the environment variables for the guest account (as in qtcreatordist/bin/qtenv.bat) so Qt Creator can successfully compile a project. This seems to happen whatever version of Qt Creator you use. Why there is no Install for all users checkbox in the Qt Creator installer? It would be very useful. I have tried to make for them a portable version of Qt Creator (copying the folder Qt/20xx.xx/ and its subfolders). Even after changing the environment variables Qt Creator doesn't run (complains about misconfigured settings), neither does Qt Assistant (could not load sqlite module), neither does Qt Demo (memory at 000 not writable). The Qt Designer runs OK. If you run the portable version in a PC that already has Qt Creator installed it runs OK too. Am I missing something? Can you help me with this? I have other concerns about using Qt/Qt Creator in education but I will address them later. Regards, Sergio Participe en la 15 Convención Científica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, del 29 de noviembre al 3 de diciembre de 2010 La Ingeniería y la Arquitectura por un Futuro Sustentable Palacio de Convenciones, La Habana, Cuba http://www.cujae.edu.cu/eventos/convencion -- Best Regards Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi My Blog: http://mbnoimi.net ___ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
Re: [Qt-creator] Qt Creator portable for Windows
Holy crap, I forgot all about subst. It's been forever since I've used it. Yeah, that'll work. That'll work beautifully. Just create a subst'ed virtual drive, install Qt on it, and then modify qtvars.bat to make sure the subst is in place. /s/ Adam On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:08 PM, M. Bashir Al-Noimi mbno...@gmx.com wrote: Hello, As Coda said, it's easy to make Qt Creator portable but what about Qt? Qt installer in windows needs absolute paths (at the end of installing process you'll find that the installer execute patches for absolute paths) so making Qt it self portable is exhausted procedure but I fixed this issue easy when I used TrueCrypt because it's creating virtual hard drive on your portable media thus you can install Qt and Qt Creator on you portable media then you can load it anywhere you go. If you don't want to use TrueCrypt try this instead: Create patch file (*.bat) and include subst command for creating virtual drive from specific folder (you can point to relative path of folder by using %CD% constant). On 08/06/2010 11:46 م, Coda Highland wrote: Qt looks for plugins in a path predetermined at build time. I think you can override this behavior with a qt.conf file in the same directory as the .exe file, but I don't know the syntax of this file and you'd have to put that file alongside every .exe generated by Creator as well. (It may be possible to do this by hacking on qt.prf? I'm not sure.) /s/ Adam On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Sergio de la Cruz Rodriguez ser...@electrica.cujae.edu.cu wrote: Hi: I'm using Qt/QtCreator to teach Medical Informatics to about 50 students. They are working these days in their final project. Some of them can only use PC's without admin rights at college facilities. If they are lucky they can find someone with admin rights that can install Qt Creator for them but when they log in their guest accounts they find that they have to tweak the environment variables for the guest account (as in qtcreatordist/bin/qtenv.bat) so Qt Creator can successfully compile a project. This seems to happen whatever version of Qt Creator you use. Why there is no Install for all users checkbox in the Qt Creator installer? It would be very useful. I have tried to make for them a portable version of Qt Creator (copying the folder Qt/20xx.xx/ and its subfolders). Even after changing the environment variables Qt Creator doesn't run (complains about misconfigured settings), neither does Qt Assistant (could not load sqlite module), neither does Qt Demo (memory at 000 not writable). The Qt Designer runs OK. If you run the portable version in a PC that already has Qt Creator installed it runs OK too. Am I missing something? Can you help me with this? I have other concerns about using Qt/Qt Creator in education but I will address them later. Regards, Sergio Participe en la 15 Convención Científica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, del 29 de noviembre al 3 de diciembre de 2010 La Ingeniería y la Arquitectura por un Futuro Sustentable Palacio de Convenciones, La Habana, Cuba http://www.cujae.edu.cu/eventos/convencion -- Best Regards Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi My Blog: http://mbnoimi.net ___ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator ___ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
