[Qt-qml] QML viewer distributable

[kai.koehne at nokia.com]

Hi,

we don't provide any package just containing the qmlviewer so far. You can, however, assemble it on your own: Just go to the 'bin' folder of your creator, and copy

* qmlviewer.exe
* Qt*.dll
* all subfolders

into e.g. a zip file. If the creator you're using is compiled with MSVC you also need the according visual studio runtime redistributables though. It's easiest just to install them once globally on the target system (just placing the dlls into the bin folder would require some Manifest patching IIRC, so that they're 'found' by the plugin dlls. But my memory might betray me here ...).

You're actually not the first one asking for this :) The reason why we don't provide packages (yet) is first and foremost bandwidth (we'd have to build / test yet another package). Also, I personally think we should avoid the notion that qmlviewer is meant for deployment. We instead will extend QtCreator such that creating you can create your own C++ application wrapper / main.cpp easily, and then you'd ship this app instead of the qmlviewer executable.

Kai


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From: qt-qml-bounces at trolltech.com [qt-qml-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Paasonen Jukka (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:42 AM
To: qt-qml at trolltech.com
Subject: [Qt-qml] QML viewer distributable

Hello,
Would there be any changes to have a standalone qmlviewer which could be distributed along with any QML file?
As now if I wish to demonstrate any QML application to someone by using a PC, I need to install Qt Creator.
This binary could simply ask in a dialog which QML file to be opened and which parameters to use.

Or is still possible already and/or have I missed something?

Jukka Paasonen

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