[Qt-interest] Images not showing in QToolBar on Linux

[Harri Pasanen]

Thursday, July 07, 2011 06:54 pm 
Michael Jackson writes:
> The System is Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 i386 with Qt 4.7.0. I have a QToolBar on
> my QMainWindow. On OS X and Windows the Icons show up. On Linux they do
> not. I have checked the obvious things like spelling and capitalization
> errors. I have a .png file that I have listed in a .qrc file. I create my
> icon like so:
> 
> QIcon GrainGeneratorPlugin::icon()
> {
>   return QIcon(":/graingenerator.png");
> }
> 
> Here is the .qrc file that goes along with it:
>  <!DOCTYPE RCC>
>  <RCC version="1.0">
>  <qresource>
>   <file>graingenerator.png</file>
>  </qresource>
>  </RCC>
> 
> I am not that familiar with Linux issues as OS X and Windows are my main
> development platforms but I definitely need to support my linux customers.
> Hopefully this is just something simple? Or maybe I can not show icons on a
> toolbar in Linux? Any help is very much appreciated.

Probably something simple, I would suspect a build dependency or similar.

How do you build?

Something like

make distclean
qmake && make

might be all you need to do.


Harri
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