[Qt-interest] Problem with MFC to Qt migration using qt-vs-addin-1.0.2 in VisualStudio2005

[John McClurkin]

Vanbrabant Martin wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am using Qt 4.5.2, open source version, configured and built from the 
> source distribution for platform win32-msvc2005.
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> I develop using VisualStudio2005, and have the Visual Studio add-in 
> (qt-vs-addin-1.0.2) installed.
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> Making new Qt applications work fine.
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> Now I have to gradually migrate a (huge!) MFC application to Qt.
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> I am using qt-winmigrate-opensource-2-8 for that purpose.
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> I can reconstruct (using qmake –tp vc) .vcproj files for all steps found 
> in the help:
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> http://doc.trolltech.com/solutions/4/qtwinmigrate/winmigrate-walkthrough.html 
> ..
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> Next thing to do is to repeat these steps in my own MFC application.
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> When I am at the paragraph “A new Qt Dialog” in above walkthrough, I read:
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> “To add a new dialog we use the Visual Studio integration toolbar's "New 
> Qt Dialog" button. We add a Qt Designer ..ui file "optionsdialog.ui" to 
> the current project, and add the required build steps to generate a C++ 
> class from that file.”
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> Now here is the problem: the Visual Studio add-in does not provide this 
> toolbar to VisualStudio2005.
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> As a workaround, in the solution explorer, I tried the context sensitive 
> menu Add.../New Item.../Qt Forms/Qt Dialog Form, which resulted in a new 
> .ui file.
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> I could edit the .ui file with Qt Designer, but when I built the 
> project, the .ui file was not processed (I did not get any moc_*.cpp, 
> ui_*.h files).
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> Also, I could not change my project properties (the “Qt Project 
> Settings” menu item is grayed out for this project, unlike for self- 
> created Qt applications).
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> Any idea how to continue here?

You say you use qmake to make the .vcproj files. I assume then, that you 
  have .pro files. Did you add the .ui file to the FORMS section of the 
.pro file? Did you add an include statement to your base class header 
that includes the ui_dialog.h?
	#include "ui_dialog.h"
This is what actually causes qmake to add commands for uic.exe into the 
build system.

For what it's worth, I also use msvc2005 with the opensource version of 
Qt, but I have found the plugin to be fairly useless. I just run 
QtDesigner alone to create gui elements, manually edit the .pro file to 
add those elements to the FORMS section, run qmake -tp vc in a cmd 
window to make the .vcproj files, and just use visual studio as the 
final edit and build tool.

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> Thanks.
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