Hi Detlev,
Yes, the Mac OS X platform name is "darwin".
I tried this patch, but got the error message about not being able to
start developer.app.
I then made it do the same as the version 3 code (which builds the
complete path name) but I got the same error message box (except it
said "make sure Qt-Designer is available as /usr/local/bin/.../
designer.app").
Next I tried making 'open' the command, with '/usr/local/bin/.../
designer.app' as the first argument and any supplied .ui file as the
next argument. This works OK if I invoke it from Extras->Tools-
>Designer 4 but if I double-click a .ui file or right-click it and
choose 'open in designer' then I get *two* copies of Designer
started! One has the .ui file opened and the other is a 'clean start'.
I'm a bit confused by this. I will play with QProcess a bit more and
see what I can find.
Regards,
-- Colin
On 30 Dec 2008, at 11:18, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
Hi Colin,
please try the following. In UserInterface.py in method __designer
(around
line 3700) find these statements.
if sys.platform == "win32":
designer = designer + '.exe'
Please add this code after the lines.
elif sys.platform == "???": # Enter Mac OS X platform name
darwin?
designer = designer + '.app'
Please report your results.
Regards,
Detlev
On Montag, 29. Dezember 2008, Colin McPhail wrote:
On 29 Dec 2008, at 10:37, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
...
The QT designer application is installed as /Developer/
Applications/
Qt/
Designer.app on Mac OS X. Designer.app is a Mac OS X 'package' (a
folder, really). Inside the package is an executable called
Designer. I have created a hard link to it in ~/bin called
designer
(lower-case 'd') and now eric4 can find it OK. It would be nice to
be
able to configure eric4 to find the installed executable, though.
eric4 uses several executables of the Qt4 package. These are:
- designer
- linguist
- assistant
- lrelease
eric4 expects these executables in the search path, which is set via
the
environment variable PATH (at least on *nix and Win* systems). How
is this
accomplished on Mac OS X? Is it standard, that the executables
have an
uppercase first letter?
Unfortunately I don't own a Mac, so I need support in this area.
I'm not too knowledgeable about Mac OS X conventions but I've poked
about and here's what I've discovered:
(a) Somewhat to my surprise I find that the default MAC OS X file-
system is case-insensitive, so there is no problem about that.
(b) The Mac OS X install of Qt creates an installation directory
(e.g. /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3 ) with a bin subdirectory in
which reside all the executable files. Assuming your users put this
subdirectory on their PATH then eric4 will find the plain executables
such as lrelease, lupdate, qmake, uic, etc.
(c) Assistant, Designer and Linguist also live in this subdirectory
but as packages (full name Designer.app, etc).
(d) There is a standard command 'open' (man page text attached) that
can be used to execute packages. It requires the package's full path
however, it won't find the package just because it is held in a
directory on the PATH. Perhaps eric4 could find lrelease on the
PATH,
extract the directory path and use it to construct 'open' commands
for
Designer.app, Assistant.app and Linguist.app?
What I've done for now is to export a shell variable QTDIR in
my .bashrc and to have a set of single-line shell scripts in ~/bin
called designer, linguist and assistant that just open $QTDIR/bin/
Designer.app, etc.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you need more information.
Regards,
-- Colin
--
Detlev Offenbach
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