Re: [Interest] unknown module(s) in qt: designer with Qt5 (compiled in Qt4)

2013-05-31 Thread Robert Wood
It's Mageia 3. On 31/05/13 17:07, Robert Wood wrote: > Folks, > > Am starting off using Qt5, as my Linux distribution has now started > packaging Qt Creator based on Qt 5.0.2. I have managed to get rid of > most of the errors on my first project, but am stuck on: > > unknown module(s) in qt: desig

Re: [Interest] Long menus on Windows

2013-05-31 Thread John Weeks
Alex- Thank you! You seem to be the only one that takes an interest in my peculiar questions. The dialog takes extra clicks- one to select a menu item that displays the dialog, then more clicks to interact with the dialog and click OK button. I agree that huge menus aren't great; I'm not sure

Re: [Interest] Long menus on Windows

2013-05-31 Thread Alex Malyushytskyy
By the way you can always to make your dialog function like menu. I recall I did it once with Qt 3. I bet in Qt 4 or 5 it will be even easier. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Alex Malyushytskyy wrote: > AFAIK on Windows that is native behavior. > Also from design point of view long menu in gene

Re: [Interest] Long menus on Windows

2013-05-31 Thread Alex Malyushytskyy
AFAIK on Windows that is native behavior. Also from design point of view long menu in general are considered bad design. If I were you I would do something similar to what Excel does - display dialog. You might also display a few the most used or/and last used commands together with option to open

Re: [Interest] Amazon / Classic Mac OS-like menus (Tognazzini and Batson)?

2013-05-31 Thread John Lee
On Fri, 31 May 2013, Rutledge Shawn wrote: [...] > Won't that be a normal popup QMenu then? I don't think you should need to > implement it yourself unless it needs to be really very custom. Sure, but I want that behaviour now!-P > I wrote up a suggestion to make QMenus on Linux behave that wa

[Interest] Long menus on Windows

2013-05-31 Thread John Weeks
We have a couple very long menus in our application (containing a list of functions in our internal programming language). On Macintosh, the menu simple runs from the top to the bottom of the screen and scrolls very quickly. On Windows, it shows as a multi-column menu that fills the monitor! Is

[Interest] unknown module(s) in qt: designer with Qt5 (compiled in Qt4)

2013-05-31 Thread Robert Wood
Folks, Am starting off using Qt5, as my Linux distribution has now started packaging Qt Creator based on Qt 5.0.2. I have managed to get rid of most of the errors on my first project, but am stuck on: unknown module(s) in qt: designer I have had a look at the analogue clock example and have QT

Re: [Interest] delete effect not immediate QFileSystemModel

2013-05-31 Thread R. Reucher
On Friday 31 May 2013 07:36:02 Sujan Dasmahapatra wrote: > I am deleting one item from QFileSystemModel but it's not updated > immediately, when I click on other item then I can see that it's deleted > from the model. > > QFileSystemModel *model = new QFileSystemModel; > model->setRootPath(QDir::c

[Interest] Fwd: [Development] New snapshot for testing available

2013-05-31 Thread Sergio Ahumada
Original Message From: Heikkinen Jani To: developm...@qt-project.org Qt5 RC1 is coming soon. There are new installers available in http://download.qt-project.org/snapshots/qt/5.1/5.1.0-rc1/backups/ Please test those installers and give us feedback how you see the quali

[Interest] Fwd: [Development] New online installers available for testing

2013-05-31 Thread Sergio Ahumada
Original Message From: Heikkinen Jani To: developm...@qt-project.org Hi all! There is new online installers available in http://download.qt-project.org/online/qt5/online_installers/ At the moment content is Qt5.0.2 but it will be updated to Qt5.1 RC1 when it is publishe

Re: [Interest] Amazon / Classic Mac OS-like menus (Tognazzini and Batson)?

2013-05-31 Thread Rutledge Shawn
Den 31 May 2013 kl. 9:40 AM skrev John Lee: > > I was intending to implement it in my own code (or better, use somebody > else's open source implementation...) -- though I'd be glad to see > explicit support for it added to Qt of course. > > It's for a QSystemTrayIcon. If it worked on Linux t

Re: [Interest] Amazon / Classic Mac OS-like menus (Tognazzini and Batson)?

2013-05-31 Thread John Lee
On Fri, 31 May 2013, Rutledge Shawn wrote: > > Den 31 May 2013 kl. 12:32 AM skrev John Lee: > >> Hi >> >> Has anybody implemented this sort of menu using Qt? >> >> http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown >> >> The idea is to avoid the problem of child menus that close