Posts Tagged ‘Qt’

First starting with Qt, I urgently wanted to run it with the Visual Studio 2008 addin. I soon regretted this decision, as I wanted to compile a little (official) addon component. I ended up in digging through forums, since I’m not fit with console-based compilation (nmake, qmake, etc.), but in the end, I somehow managed to get it to compile.
And now, as I wanted to test it on some other computers (with no Visual Studio 2008 installed), I couldn’t manage to get the app up and running by half a day. Not even dependency-walker helped me out here…looks like VS links all kinds of not needed crap into the app (woo-hoo, what a rhyme! ).
So I took a short break, and remembered, that back then, in one of my University OGRE-based projects, we had the same problem – remaining unsolved (installing VS2008 redistributables didn’t help either). And then it came to me: “You want it cross platform anyway, so why not try out the Qt Creator?!“. And what should I say: installed it, compiled the addons in no time and now I can run my app on every PC…that’s sweet!

As briefly stated in Level Master 2000 goes Qt, Level Master 2000 uses Qt now for it’s main GUI. In able to display the Flash content, it runs a QWebView. Now, I must admit I’m fairly new to Qt, and I wanted to do most of the UI with Qt Designer, as you can see right away how it will look like.
Unfortunately, if you create your WebView with Qt Designer, look up the instance in code and want to add an object to JavaScript with

webView->page()->mainFrame()->addToJavaScriptWindowObject(...)

it doesn’t seem to work!
After playing around a bit, I figured out, that if I create the instance of QWebView myself in code, it works…now I don’t yet know what I’ve done wrong exactly or what Qt Designer messes up, but problems like this cost a lot of time and more important: nerves. But on the other hand, it’s a big relief, as soon as you figured out how to work around