I have installed Qt 5.7 in order to try Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization but I cannot find new widgets neither in Qt Designer nor in Qt Creator. Any suggestions what should I do so new widgets appear in designer?
I was having exactly the same problem today. It looks like the QT Designer plugins of QT Charts are not part of the package by default. I ended up downloading the designer plugin sources from github https://github.com/qtproject/qtcharts/tree/5.7/plugins/designer
This consists of just 5 files.
You should then be able to open the designer.pro project in Qt Creator and compile it. Place the resulting library in your designer plugin directory. This will make the QChartsView widget appear in the Qt Designer.
Just elaborating on Holger's answer for ubuntu, compile, in terminal using qmake and make (doesn't work in qt creator - you need qt chart development package installed, which I believe is not available at this point in time), the designer.pro file in /opt/Qt/5.7/Src/qtcharts/plugins/designer directory then, copy and paste the shared library into /opt/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/lib/Qt/plugins/designer directory, where /opt/Qt is the directory in which Qt is installed.
I would like to add this as a comment to the accepted post:
If you are using python to build your project and process the .ui files with pyuic5 it might be the case that pyuic5 leaves you with an error message stating that QtChart.QChartview could not be found. This is the workaround:
Go to the site-packages/PyQt5/uic/widget-plugins directory, it should look something like this:
/widget-plugins/
__pycache__/
qaxcontainer.py
qscintilla.py
qtcharts.py <- create this file by copying qtquickwidgets.py and renaming
qtprintsupport.py
qtquickwidgets.py
qtwebkit.py
qtcharts.py looks like this (you have to edit the file):
# copyright information
pluginType = MODULE
def moduleInformation():
return "PyQt5.QtChart", ("QChartView", )
I also encountered this problem today, but Holger's way didn't work on my situation. After consulting other people via internet, I finally fixed it. And my solution is quiet simple, I just open the Maintenance Tool and choose add components, select Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization, and click next, and then it works. This problem happens because by default Qt Charts is not selected while installing Qt, so we should add this component manually.
But I also should mention that maybe this way just work on Qt which was installed by Qt Online Installer, and if you installed Qt via offline Installer, maybe you should reinstall it.
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i have built an QT GUI app using Visual Studio 2017 with Qt VS Tools extension and QT version 5.6 (the one provided by QT precompiled), using Qled widget plugin.
With this Default Dynamic Qt version, the app runs fine with the widget and i have no problems.
But now, i want to build the same app, but static, for use without dependencies.
So, i built QT 5.6 from source with -static parameter, to be more exact i follow this blog's guide. Here problems started to show up:
I tried to rebuild the widget plugin using the static qmake, but i got this error: "Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: designer"
I tried to use the plugin compiled by the dynamic qmake, and surprisingly, it built with success but the GUI app didn't open at all.
Its worth mentioning that i can use and build a simple default application using a qmake static build.
I think i need to add the Qt Designer Module, but i don't know how to do this, i even tried to rebuild qmake without the "-nomake tools" paramter, but got the same error building the plugin.
just don't build the plugin, you don't need it. Just add the qrc file, and the actual widget *.cpp and *.h file into your project
fix the linkage, delete the QDESIGNER_WIDGET_EXPORT in the *.h file inside your project
This comment managed to solved my problem, thanks to #PeterT
I have been trying to play a simple audio file using:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qmediaplayer.html and
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/QSound.html
I am using Qt 5.3 but the problem is, when I type #include QMediaPlayer or QSound, QtCreator keeps underlining them with red because it can't find them. The thing is, the files are there. They are located in QtMultimedia/ and I have seen them. When I try to prefix QtMultimedia/QMediaPlayer or QtMultimedia/qmediaplayer.h it still can't find them.
If I type #include "QtMultimedia/" the auto-complete drop down in the text editor only shows QtMultimedia/QtMultimediaDepends. Normally you get a list of all the files in the folder but not with this one.
Looks like there is something wrong with the paths. How do I fix them? I am using a Windows machine.
Edit: I have included project settings - see screenshots.
I think, after you modified your .pro file, You didn't run the qmake.
build-> run qmake
qmake will generate the makefile you need to build the src code.
if you only change the .pro file, but didn't run it. Nothing is changed.
and that is reason, you create a new project and it is working.
Ok I figured it out. It's a problem with my Qt version.
My Qt 5.3 version is a custom compiled one. When I select the included version that came with the installer, QSound is found. When I change the kit to the custom compiled one, the file cannot be found. I must have forgotten to include some sort of multimedia option to the configure script during compilation.
Now the question is what is the missing option, I will need to do more reading...
Of course, comments and suggestions are welcome :)
You have to add the word 'multimedia' in your .pro file:
QT += core GUI
greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets multimedia
I'm reading the book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt4", and I've reached the topic of Integrating Custom Widgets with Qt Designer.
I've built the example project outlined there (the icon editor plugin), and I get a file called 'libiconeditorplugin.so', and I've copied it to '/usr/lib/qt4/plugins/designer/'. But when I start Qt Creator I don't see the icon editor widget in the widget box.
The only thing I've done differently from the book is I removed the DESTDIR from the .pro file because it had $QTDIR, and $QTDIR is not defined in my computer and I don't know where it should point. Instead, I copied the .so file manually.
I'm not sure if I've copied the plugin in the right directory, and if libiconeditorplugin.so is the only file that I needed to copy, the book was kind of sketchy on how it should work.
My OS is Ubuntu and I've installed Qt Creator with apt-get.
Turns out I was copying libiconeditorplugin.so to the wrong directory. I was copying it to "/usr/lib/qt4/plugins/designer/", while Qt Designer was looking in "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/designer/".
Preface: I am using Qt Creator 2.4.1 (based on Qt 4.7.4, 64-bit) on Mac OS X Lion installed via the Qt SDK.
I am working on a project where I have a UI created using the designer in QCreator. I have several widgets working without issue. I created a new QPushButton widget by dragging it from the desiger palette and set some properties in the designer. However, I am unable to access it from the source code using the ui->[widget] convention. I can access every other widget on the form as expected. A search of the site yielded one similar issue, however the solution specified does not work for me.
I've tried:
Clean, full rebuild
Re-running qmake
Restarting QCreator
I have checked the ui element's generated XML and the widget is included and with the correct objectName and properties, yet the source code portion of the designer does not see it.
I solved this issue by deleting the current working directory, checking out the latest source from version control, and creating a new project. After further scrutiny, I found that ui_mainwindow.h, which is generated every compile by qmake, had been moved into the source directory instead of the build directory, which must have caused some internal conflict with QCreator where it would not regenerate it and just copy the old one to the build folder. Deleting the file probably would have worked if I had seen it and saved me the time of starting fresh.
I want to create a similar GUI as Qt Creator main layout and thus I am looking for Qt Creator Source files.
Can anyone direct me from where to download.
Have a look at the gitorious repo: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator