Hi Andy,
You are causing a lot of confusion with such half-baked statements. Like
always, and for good reasons, the Windows installation packages for all
WSJT-X Improved versions are being created using Qt 5.12.12. This gives
the best possible backwards compatibility (down to Windows 7), as well
as the rest results in terms of rendering the various controls (also
when Dark Style is enabled). This tool chain has not been changed over
the past months.
As you know, we've spent many days of work trying to help you with your
"special" setup on an old Windows 8.1. system. During these tests, you
confirmed that all is working well on your Windows 10 computer. And no
one else has ever reported similar issues than you with your setup.
Please do me a favor and stop confusing others. If you don't understand
why we invest months of work to offer a data set for Qt6 in addition to
the existing Qt5 source code, then any further discussion about it here
is not worthwhile anyway. Other OMs who know what this is for are very
grateful for this work. And if at some point in the future you should
buy more modern equipment (maybe even Linux-based), then you will be
grateful to us one day why we were so wise and foresighted in 2024 and
2025 to develop the necessary source code for it and keep it up to date.
73 de DG2YCB,
Uwe
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Dr. Uwe Risse
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Am 01.05.2025 um 13:55 schrieb Andy Durbin via wsjt-devel:
"Both Windows 7 or 8.x version support will not be available for Qt 6.
Microsoft discontinued the support for both Windows versions some time
ago, and as a vendor, we can no longer maintain support for these
windows versions in Qt 6. Windows 7 (both 32bit and 64bit) was
supported as a target in Qt 5.15 LTS and Windows 8.1 (both 32bit and
64bit) as a target in Qt 5.12 LTS. This means that we will not have
32bit Windows support available. Additionally, it will no longer be
possible to create UWP applications on Windows 10."
ref - https://www.qt.io/blog/qt6-development-hosts-and-targets
I have found that 2.8.0 improved is not compatible with Win 8.1 and no
one has said that it works for them.
Should the WSJT-X Windows compatibility statement be revised? It
currently states - " (Windows 7 and later)" which was true for 2.7.0
but may not be true if later official releases use Qt6.
73,
Andy, k3wyc
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