On 01/31/2013 01:53 PM, Paul Olav Tvete wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2013 07:58:25 Thiago Macieira wrote: >> On quarta-feira, 30 de janeiro de 2013 17.17.46, Mumtaz Ahmad wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to run rasterwindow example using minimal plugin but i am >>> getting null paint device >>> QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 >>> >>> Is it known issue in QT5.0? >> >> The minimal plugin is not meant to be used when running applications. It's >> meant only as a helper for porting Qt to new platforms and writing new >> plugins. > > The minimal plugin is definitely not suited for production. No-one needs to > fill > up their file system with screenshots of a running application.
Currently it only does that if you set the QT_DEBUG_BACKINGSTORE environment variable. > However, there are cases where something like the minimal plugin is useful for > real applications: WebKit is one example. I recently had a discussion with > Simon about this, and the solution we came up with was moving the current > minimal plugin to examples, and write a new plugin for applications that need > to do graphics without connecting to a windowing system. Such as the offscreen platform plugin that was recently merged to dev? :) -- Samuel _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
