Re: Qt console alpha

Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Carlo,

On 07/11/2013 04:31 PM, Carlo Capelli wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've uploaded the modifications required on
> pqConsole<https://github.com/CapelliC/pqConsole>,
> and added a swipl-win <https://github.com/CapelliC/swipl-win> project.
>
> Albeit most functionality is in place, there are - of course - critical
> points that will be refined soon. But the project should be ready to start
> a preliminary usability test.

Compiled fine on Linux Mint 14 (64-bits). Runs with a few glitches. Will
report as I get a bit more used to this.  I'll try using it as my main
window.

> I've started blogging about, for instance explaining a
> trick<http://prolog-in-the-wild.blogspot.it/2013/07/a-trick-for-qt-interthread-communication.html>I
> found that make much simpler to call GUI functions from background.
>
> About swipl-win, it's merely a Prolog script 'embedded' in executable, and
> I've introduced the extension suggested by J.Morales. I hope this is not
> annoying. As a SW developer this is the first time I have a chance to
> introduce a potentially long standing, wide audience file extension. Thanks
> Jose !

:-) Still not sure I like this. I do understand that you do not like
.pro as a Qt developer ...

> If someone like to use QtCreator, now the projects can be compiled/debugged
> also on Windows / Qt 5. BTW 'porting' to Qt 5 highlighted a miss locking
> that was unnoticed while developing in Ubuntu / Qt 4.8.

Building cross-platform is still one of my worries. The other is the
size of all this.  Qt is quite involved and only KDE based Linux systems
already have it by default AFAIK.

> A detail: I've added tooltips, but helpidx.pl must be located before the
> ballons pop over... I haven't it on my machine, then I had to download from
> somewhere (I peeked one random...).

Its in the library.  The attached git patch fixes this.

	More later!

	--- Jan
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