Original design :
Setting in property :
When the program is running :
All the image inside the project folder "QuickRecorder/Images/MainWindow".
How to solve this problem?
Thank you for your help.
In cases like this the reason almost always is: You use relative path to the image, and the working directory is different when you run the application, and image is not found by the relative path.
To debug, add this to your main to print current working directory:
qDebug() << QDir::currentPath();
A few solutions:
Use absolute paths (preferably so that you construct them at runtime, for example using QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath(), instead of hard-coding).
Put images to Qt resources, so they are embedded to the executable.
Change working directory after application starts (might have unintended consequences if you for example launch child processes, or with file open/save dialogs).
Untested, moved from comment to answer: To automatically copy files from the source dir to the build dir, you could add a build step "Custom Process Step" in the Qt Creator project settings. The command you might want to use for the case of this question might be (again, untested):
cp -rv %{sourceDir}/QuickRecorder %{buildDir}
Related
I'm using scons for a build project. I want to make a static library from object files that reside a different directory and surprisingly I'm not able to do that. Here is a snippet of the code I'm using:
OBJECT_FILES = env.Object('main.o', 'main.cpp')
env.StaticLibrary("../mylib", OBJECT_FILES)
StaticLibrary doesn't work if I put any directory above this directory even if I use absolute path. For the current directory or any other directory under the current directory, this works with no issues.
Here's how I'd do that..
env.StaticLibrary("../${LIBPREFIX}mylib${LIBSUFFIX}", 'main.cpp')
No need to explicitly request env.Object() SCons will figure out the correct thing to do here. Unless for some reason you want to later do something with that list of Object()'s.
When you specify
env.StaticLibrary("mylib", ['main.cpp'])
SCons will automatically prepend $LIBPREFIX and append $LIBSUFFIX to mylib and on a POSIX system you'd end up with libmylib.a on Windows you'd end up with mylib.lib
Please consider joining the SCons discord server for more "live" help and discussions.
I have a lot of troubles following the instructions form the Kivy website, many steps aren't explained like what should I answer to the warning.
WARNING: The output directory "..." and ALL ITS CONTENTS will be REMOVED! Continue? (y/n)
Even if I choose y, the folder isn't removed.
Also should I always add these lines:
from kivy.deps import sdl2, glew
Tree('C:\\Users\\<username>\\Desktop\\MyApp\\'),
*[Tree(p) for p in (sdl2.dep_bins + glew.dep_bins)]
in the .spec file? Why are they necessary?
Not many info is available for Kivy.
Because I spent a lot of time understanding how I should package my app, here are some instructions that would have really helped me.
Some info are available at http://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/
Python 3.6 as of march 2017
Because packaging my app gave me the error IndexError: tuple index out of range, I had to install the developement version of PyInstaller:
pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip
Step 1:
I moved all the files of MyApp in a folder "C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\MyApp": the .py, the .kv and the images and I created an icon.ico.
I created another folder C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\MyPackagedApp. In this folder I press Shift+right click and select open command window here.
Then I pasted this:
python -m PyInstaller --name MyApp --icon "C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\MyApp\icon.ico" "C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\MyApp\myapp.py"
This creates two folders, build and dist, and a .spec file. In dist/MyApp, I can find a .exe. Apparently, if my app is really simple (just one label), the packaged app can works without the Step 2.
Step 2:
The second step involves editing the .spec file. Here is an exemple of mine.
(cf Step 3, for the explanations about my_hidden_modules)
I go back to the cmd, and enter
python -m MyApp myapp.spec
I then got this warning:
WARNING: The output directory "..." and ALL ITS CONTENTS will be REMOVED! Continue? (y/n)
I enter y and then press enter.
Because I choosed y, I was surpised that the folder build was still there and that the dist/MyApp was still containing many files. But this is normal. PyInstaller can output a single file .exe or a single folder which contains all the script’s dependencies and an executable file. But the default output is a single folder with multiple files.
Step 3: adding hidden modules
When I click on the myapp.exe in dist/MyApp, the app crashed. In the log C:\Users\.kivy\logs\ I could find 2 errors: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32timezone' and SystemError: <class '_frozen_importlib._ModuleLockManager'>.
Because of this I had to edit the .spec file and add these lines:
my_hidden_modules = [
( 'C:\\Users\\<username>\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python36\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib\\win32timezone.py', '.' )
]
in a = Analysis I changed datas = [] to datas = my_hidden_modules,
Apparently this is because I used a FileChooser widget.
So, the line:
ALL ITS CONTENTS will be REMOVED!
yes, it will be removed AND replaced later with new files. Check the date. I think it prints permission denied if it can't do such a thin both for files and the whole folder, so you'd notice it. It's important though, because you need to add additional files into your folder.
Those additional files of two types:
kivy dependencies
application data
Dependencies are just binaries (+/- loaders, licenses, or so), you get them through the *[Tree(p) ...] piece of code, which is just a command for "get all files from that folder". Without them Kivy won't even start.
Similarly to that, the second Tree(<app folder>) does the same, but for your own files such as .py files, .kv files, images, music, databases, basically whatever you create.
Obviously if you remove the deps, app won't start and if you remove app data, you'll get some path errors and most likely crash. You don't want any of that :P
It also works if in the 'a = Analysis...' block in the spec file one substitutes
hiddenimports=[]
for
hiddenimports=['win32file', 'win32timezone']
for win32file, win32timezone or for whatever files are missing
I'm trying to make a standalone .exe packaged Ruby Shoes app that uses images dynamically, meaning whichever images is found in the folder of the .exe file.
Shoes.app() {
background "bg.jpg"
}
This code works if the image is in the same folder when the .exe is packaged, and the image seems to be packaged into the .exe since it's not needed in the same folder as the .exe for it to display when running the exe. But when you want it to load the file in the same folder as the .exe, packaging the app without the image, it does not show. I've tried different ways at finding absolute path to the current directory where the .exe is launched from, but they all seem to point to some temporary directory under AppData and not where the .exe file is located.
Edit: my first answer was incomplete. Windows is a little odd in Shoes for packaged apps. Write a little test script.
Shoes.app do
stack do
para "DIR: #{DIR}"
para "LIB_DIR: #{LIB_DIR}"
cdir = Dir.getwd
para "CWD: #{cdir}"
end
end
Dir.getwd is probably what you want.
Calling pwd should get you what you want
Nope, Ok sorry get it now !:-)
Shoes is opening your exe/shy into AppData/temp so working directory and __FILE__ both point there !
Someone, some time ago proposed this : Trying to access the "current dir" in a packaged Shoes app
must be a better way !
EDIT:
you probably want custom packager (check "i want advanced install options")
check "Expand shy in users directory"
Do as you done for regular packaging.
Now when launching the exe, it will ask you( or the user) to choose where to install your app, proceed, note the directory.
Now before launching the installed app feed the noted directory with your resources and you should be ok
Some references : https://github.com/Shoes3/shoes3/wiki/Custom-Install-Scripts
(there's a lot more to it)
https://github.com/Shoes3/shoes3/issues/247#issuecomment-213919829
After wasting some time to figure out what goes wrong, I finally have to ask for help. I want to use appledocs from Gentle Bytes. I followed every step of the quick install guide, but I´m not able to compile the project.
Here is what I´ve done:
1. cloned it from git://github.com/tomaz/appledoc.git
2. installed the templates to ~/Library/Application Support/appledoc
3. tried to compile the project
Everytime I try to compile, I get following error:
ERROR: AppledocException: At least one directory or file name path is required, use 'appledoc --help'
What do I have to do now?
Sounds like you've compiled it just fine and are now running the program. If it's a command-line program try command-option-R in Xcode to provide some arguments (i.e. names of files that you want to process).
The error means you didn't give it source paths: after all switches, you must give it at least one path to your source files. Can be either file or directory. In later case it will recursively scan the dir. Here's example
appledoc <options> ~/MyProject
Above example will use ~/MyProject directory as a source. You can also add multiple source paths. Note that you need to give the tool few options, see this page for minimum command line and other usage examples.
You either have to copy appledoc executable to one of directories in your path, as suggested by Caleb, or use full path to it when invoking (for example: /path/to/appledoc)
I've encountered a scenario where I'm building a Perl module as part of another Build system on a Windows machine. I use the --install_base option of Module::Build to specify a temporary directory to put module files until the overall build system can use them. Unfortunately, that other Build system has a problem if any of its files that it depends on are read only - it tries to delete any generated files before rebuilding them, and it can't clean any read-only files (it tries to delete it, and it's read only, which gives an error.) By default, Module::Build installs its libraries with the read-only bit enabled.
One option would be to make a new step in the build process that removes the read-only bit from the installed files, but due to the nature of the build tool that will require a second temporary directory...ugh.
Is it possible to configure a Module::Build based installer to NOT enable that read-only bit when the files are installed to the --install_base directory? If so, how?
No, it's not a configurable option. It's done in the copy_if_modified method in Module::Build::Base:
# mode is read-only + (executable if source is executable)
my $mode = oct(444) | ( $self->is_executable($file) ? oct(111) : 0 );
chmod( $mode, $to_path );
If you controlled the Build.PL, you could subclass Module::Build and override copy_if_modified to call the base class and then chmod the file writable. But I get the impression you're just trying to install someone else's module.
Probably the easiest thing to do would be to install a copy of Module::Build in a private directory, then edit it to use oct(666) (or whatever mode you want). Then invoke perl -I /path/to/customized/Module/Build Build.PL. Or, (as you said) just use the standard Module::Build and add a separate step to mark everything writable afterwards.
Update: ysth is right; it's ExtUtils::Install that actually does the final copy. copy_if_modified is for populating blib. But ExtUtils::Install also hardcodes the mode to read-only. You could use a customized version of ExtUtils::Install, but it's probably easier to just have a separate step.