[Qt-creator] QML + shadow build annoyance

Daniel Teske daniel.teske at nokia.com
Tue Nov 2 18:15:11 CET 2010


On Tuesday 02 November 2010 17:39:29 ext Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> [if this has been discussed already, ignore]
> 
> There is an annoying misfeature when using QML with shadow build;
> everything gets copied over to shadow
> build directory before syntax is checked. Syntax errors are reported like
> this:
> 
>     file:///.../myapp-build-desktop/qml/myapp/main.qml:29:14:
> 
> i.e. it refers to the version in shadow build dir. Clicking on that
> line brings you to edit the
> "temporary" version of the file, and when you try to build again your
> fixes get overwritten by the old, broken version.
> 
> The behaviour is technically correct, but it's not what the user
> intuitively expects.
As far as I know we fixed that case, though there's still a bug that running on 
the device outputs device paths and we don't convert them.

daniel



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