[Development] QtDesigner library made private in Qt5?

Stephen Kelly stephen.kelly at kdab.com
Fri Jan 6 07:57:14 CET 2012


On Thursday, January 05, 2012 08:20:03 you wrote:
> QFormBuilder is part of uilib, and should be exported from there. The only
> difference is that it lives in qttools (qttools/src/designer/src/uilib),
> not qtbase. This move was done to avoid some ugly dependency issues
> between qtbase and qttools.

I found out what the problem was: qttools buildsystem seeks the qtcore 
sources, but doesn't find them properly, so designer was not built on my 
system.

https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-23506

I thought it had been removed. Sorry for the noise.

Thanks,

> 
> Cheers,
> Lars
> 
> On 1/4/12 5:45 PM, "ext Stephen Kelly" <stephen.kelly at kdab.com> wrote:
> >On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 14:22:55 Friedemann Kleint wrote:
> >> Hi Stephen,
> >> 
> >> A Happy New Year to you.
> >> 
> >> > It failed because QFormBuilder is no longer available. Then I
> >> > noticed
> >> > that the entire designer library and interface is no longer
> >> > available.
> >> > 
> >> > Why was that done and can it be undone?
> >> 
> >> Lars moved uitools, etc around (for module separation reasons,
> >> basically), but it should still work (The libraries and includes are
> >> still there). Could you be more precise? - Which code fails to
> >> compile?
> >
> >Hi there,
> >
> >The code that fails to compile in this specific case uses QFormBuilder,
> >which is public API in Qt4:
> >
> >http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.8-snapshot/qformbuilder.html
> >
> >It is no longer public API along with everything here:
> >
> >http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.8-snapshot/qtdesigner.html
> >
> >which will make lots of other code fail to compile.
> >
> >All the headers are now private and not installed.
> >
> >Thanks,
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