You start at a new place or on a new Linux distro coding away on your Qt project and suddenly find yourself asking; “Where did my qDebug() output go?” Lots of people are suddenly finding themselves in this boat. I fell into this boat after installing Majaro so I could work on the code for the last post. You will find a metric buttload of bad information. In QtCreator you need to navigate to “Manage … Where Did My QDebug Output Go?Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 2
Diamond is cross platform. It runs on Linux and other platforms supported by CopperSpice. There are some things I would like to try adding and donating back to the community. Themes – Right now you can just set individual colors but I would like to enhance that part to add the ability to save named sets of colors. I intend to try setting up a few from the world of Emacs that I like so … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 2Read more
QtCreator – no qmlscene installed
QtCreator, during various stages of its life, has spit the “no qmlscene installed” error out for quite a few people. If you are reading this you probably search for “no qmlscene installed” and landed here. Since many of you reading this blog aren’t part of the Qt mailing list I thought I would share a question and my response. This problem comes up constantly and I’ve been bitten by it myself far more than I … QtCreator – no qmlscene installedRead more
How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 8
This is where we begin to merge our discussion of distcc and the Raspberry Pi. The first thing I needed to do was actually get distcc installed on the Pi. Don’t forget the monitor so you can tell if things are working. I also created a ~/.distcc/hosts file. localhost roland-desktop roland-HP-Compaq-8100-Elite-SFF-PC After adding the previously mentioned make options to the project my out of the box attempt went like this: Notice the red bars? This … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 8Read more
How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 2
We need to establish a time frame before I start showing any code. Yes, you can go visit Source Forge to pull down what is there if you are well and truly desperate to view it. This portion is more about the journey than the code. xpnsqt The xpnsqt program was originally written around the time IBM sunset OS/2 which, according to this article, spanned the time frame between March 12, 2003 and December 31, … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 2Read more