[Eric] Configuring eric4

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2008, Colin McPhail wrote:
> Hi Detlev,
>
> Yes, the Mac OS X platform name is "darwin".
>
> I tried this patch, but got the error message about not being able to
> start developer.app.
> I then made it do the same as the version 3 code (which builds the
> complete path name) but I got the same error message box (except it
> said "make sure Qt-Designer is available  as /usr/local/bin/.../
> designer.app").
> Next I tried making 'open' the command, with '/usr/local/bin/.../
> designer.app' as the first argument and any supplied .ui file as the
> next argument.  This works OK if I invoke it from Extras->Tools->
>
> Designer 4  but if I double-click a .ui file or right-click it and
>
> choose 'open in designer' then I get *two* copies of Designer
> started!  One has the .ui file opened and the other is a 'clean start'.

According to the open man page that is because open takes the given list as 
programs and files to open. In case of a file, it opens the file with the 
standard application registered for it. However, that might not always be 
designer for a .ui file.

>
> I'm a bit confused by this.  I will play with QProcess a bit more and
> see what I can find.

Thanks for you support. It is highly appreciated.

Detlev

>
> Regards,
> -- Colin
>
> On 30 Dec 2008, at 11:18, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > Hi Colin,
> >
> > please try the following. In UserInterface.py in method __designer
> > (around
> > line 3700) find these statements.
> >
> >        if sys.platform == "win32":
> >            designer = designer + '.exe'
> >
> > Please add this code after the lines.
> >
> >        elif sys.platform == "???":	# Enter Mac OS X platform name
> > darwin?
> >            designer = designer + '.app'
> >
> > Please report your results.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Detlev
> >
> > On Montag, 29. Dezember 2008, Colin McPhail wrote:
> >> On 29 Dec 2008, at 10:37, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> >>>> ...
> >>>> The QT designer application is installed as /Developer/
> >>>> Applications/
> >>>> Qt/
> >>>> Designer.app on Mac OS X.  Designer.app is a Mac OS X  'package' (a
> >>>> folder, really).  Inside the package is an executable called
> >>>> Designer.  I have created a hard link  to it in ~/bin called
> >>>> designer
> >>>> (lower-case 'd') and now eric4 can find it OK.  It would be nice to
> >>>> be
> >>>> able to configure eric4  to find the installed executable, though.
> >>>
> >>> eric4 uses several executables of the Qt4 package. These are:
> >>>
> >>> - designer
> >>> - linguist
> >>> - assistant
> >>> - lrelease
> >>>
> >>> eric4 expects these executables in the search path, which is set via
> >>> the
> >>> environment variable PATH (at least on *nix and Win* systems). How
> >>> is this
> >>> accomplished on Mac OS X? Is it standard, that the executables
> >>> have an
> >>> uppercase first letter?
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately I don't own a Mac, so I need support in this area.
> >>
> >> I'm not too knowledgeable about Mac OS X conventions but I've poked
> >> about and here's what I've discovered:
> >>
> >> (a) Somewhat to my surprise I find that the default MAC OS X file-
> >> system is case-insensitive, so there is no problem about that.
> >>
> >> (b) The Mac OS X install of Qt creates an installation directory
> >> (e.g.  /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3 ) with a bin subdirectory in
> >> which reside all the executable files.  Assuming your users put this
> >> subdirectory on their PATH then eric4 will find the plain executables
> >> such as lrelease, lupdate, qmake, uic, etc.
> >>
> >> (c) Assistant, Designer and Linguist also live in this subdirectory
> >> but as packages (full name Designer.app, etc).
> >>
> >> (d) There is a standard command 'open' (man page text attached) that
> >> can be used to execute packages.  It requires the package's full path
> >> however, it won't find the package just because it is held in a
> >> directory on the PATH.  Perhaps eric4 could find lrelease on the
> >> PATH,
> >> extract the directory path and use it to construct 'open' commands
> >> for
> >> Designer.app, Assistant.app and Linguist.app?
> >>
> >> What I've done for now is to export a shell variable QTDIR in
> >> my .bashrc and to have a set of single-line shell scripts in ~/bin
> >> called designer, linguist and assistant that just open $QTDIR/bin/
> >> Designer.app, etc.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.  Let me know if you need more information.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> -- Colin
> >
> > --
> > Detlev Offenbach
> > detlev at die-offenbachs.de



-- 
Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de