[QScintilla] qscintilla QT designer plugin

[Phil Thompson]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:07:34 +0200, Rubi Mazaki <rubimazaki at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'v installed QT clean twice, just for the sake of testing QScintilla..
> Maybe it's QT problem or Windows 7 but it seems I was ok with the steps
I
> took.
> 1. I used QT's cmd shortcut for setting the environment and followed the
> instructions on the QScintilla\ ...\QT4\html\index.htm page.
>    With the exception of using "mingw32-make.exe" but "make.exe" (no
> make.exe on my computer)
> 2. After following the make + install of both QT4 and designer4, with
> warnings but no errors, I opened QT (4) and found that the plugin was
not
> installed!

Sorry I don't understand what you mean by "opened QT (4)".

> 3. After looking around I saw there was no qscintillaplugin.pluginspec
file
> anywhere,

What is a .pluginspec file?

> I even tried to moc one (copy pasted another and tried to fix it
> for scintilla) but then QT poped out message that it awaits for an msvc
> build of the plugin. I didn't give up and setup Visual Studio 2005 + sp1
> and
> updates .. (thinking about it I wasted some effort here :). tried to
> compile
> with nmake, but since QT4 that is available on QT's site is a mingw
build,
> it could not link to scintilla. At that point I understand that
> 
> Scintilla is only for visual studio build of QT. not the main QT4 trunk.
> so.. is there a QScintilla for the normal QT4? (which later be
compatible
> to
> mingw on other OS's?)

QScintilla is the same whether you build it with MSVC or MinGW.

> I hope there's a positive answer to this (or at least more positive than
it
> looks now...)
> 
> rubi

Phil