On Jul 14, 2014, at 6:22 PM, Mark Brethen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm testing the FreeCAD build and discovered that the help menu returns the
> error message: "Unable to launch Qt Assistant
> (/opt/local/bin/Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Assistant)". Launching Qt
> Assistant is done in the function startAssistant() which is found in
> src/Gui/Assistant.cpp. The following lines get the name of the executable and
> the doc path:
>
> #ifdef Q_OS_WIN
> QString app;
> app = QDir::toNativeSeparators(QString::fromUtf8
> (App::GetApplication().GetHomePath()) + QLatin1String("bin/"));
> #else
> QString app = QLibraryInfo::location(QLibraryInfo::BinariesPath) +
> QDir::separator();
> #endif
> #if !defined(Q_OS_MAC)
> app += QLatin1String("assistant");
> #else
> app += QLatin1String("Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Assistant");
> #endif
>
> QString exe =
> QString::fromUtf8(App::GetApplication().getExecutableName());
> QString doc =
> QString::fromUtf8(App::Application::getHelpDir().c_str());
> QString qhc = doc + exe.toLower() + QLatin1String(".qhc");
>
> I'm not that familiar with c++ but I believe
> 'QLibraryInfo::location(QLibraryInfo::BinariesPath) + QDir::separator()' is
> setting the variable 'app' to /opt/local/bin. This line needs to be patched
> so that it finds /Applications/Macports/Qt4. How is a string used as a file
> path In c++?
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
In other words, how is the macports variable included in the patch?
QString app = ${applications_dir} + QLatin1String("Qt/");
Mark
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