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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">it is probably caused by the way eric searches for the Qt tools. I adjusted it only to the official Qt installer, which creates an application bundle. Please give the paths of the tools as generated by macports. Maybe I can adjust to that as well.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Detlev<br /><br />On Sunday 21 April 2013, 10:59:40 Srinivas Nyayapati wrote:<br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">Hello</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">I am trying to follow the Eric4 minibrowser tutorial. I am at the stage where one needs to launch designer by double clicking the .ui file. I see an error window when i try open the .ui file with the following message -</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;"><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">"Could not start Qt-Designer. Ensure that it is available as ."</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;"><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">I am running mountain lion 10.8.2</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">I installed the following from macports -</span></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">Python 2.7.3</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">QT 4.8.4</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">PyQt 4.10.0</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">QScintilla 2.4.6</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">Sip 4.14.5</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;"><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">I then got the latest source code of Eric4 4.5.10 and installed that. I can also open designer from the command line. It's when I am trying to launch this from Eric4, I see the error. </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;"><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">I did a search for this error, and found a similar problem somebody had in 2008. The message was slightly different and that thread did not help.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;"><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">Another thing I should mention is that before I went the macports route.. I installed the complete bundle for PyQt from pyqtx. This was installed on python 2.7.2 I installed from </span><a href="http://python.org"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600; text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">python.org</span></a><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">. </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">I abandoned that route and went the macports way. </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;"><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">I did make sure I was using the right version of python when I was installing all the different packages.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;"><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Noteworthy'; font-size:18px; font-weight:600;">Has anybody else seen this problem? Can you help me resolve this issue?</span><br />-Srini</p>
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