Fwd: Re: [Qgis-developer] Patch to Remove Qt3 Dependencies

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Tom

2008/5/23 Tom Elwertowski <telwertowski at comcast.net>:
> Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to put in a +1 for Tom to go ahead an apply this patch so we
>> can have it in QGIS 0.11.0 and then get rid of the final qt3 bits in
>> time for the next release (1.0).
>
> As the thread indicates, the patch was applied about two weeks ago. It's
> probably a good sign if you haven't noticed ;-) since the patch isn't

Oh we are always behind the times here in Brasil :-) Really I dont
know where my brain is these days :-( Thanks for the update...

Regards

Tim


> supposed to change functionality.
>
> However, I'll take advantage of this message to provide an update on the
> remaining Qt3 code removal.
>
> I just got the GRASS provider/plugin to compile without Q3Support. There are
> still many runtime issues so a patch for others to try is perhaps two weeks
> away.
>
> I also discovered that when QT_USE_QT3SUPPORT is removed from the top level
> CMakeLists.txt, the macro QT3_SUPPORT is no longer defined and we lose
> access to inline definitions which map old Qt3 method names to new Qt4
> method names, for example QString::find is now QString::indexOf. Sometimes
> in the next few days, I will be submitting a patch updating method names
> throughout qgis.
>
> A final note is that the GRASS plugin will not work using Qt-Mac-Cocoa
> simply by porting it to Qt4. There are symbol collisions between GRASS
> Vector and Mac libraries which do not happen in Qt-Mac-Carbon(4.4). The
> solution appears to be a partitioning of the GRASS plugin into Core and Gui
> layers so that GRASS Vector headers and QtGui headers do not appear in the
> same qgis files. This will be investigated after the complete port to Qt4.
> Tom
>
>>>>  Am Mittwoch 07 Mai 2008 08:46:18 schrieb Tom Elwertowski:
>>>>  > I merged your revision and submitted the patch.
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Marco Hugentobler wrote:
>>>>  > > I think I found the reason for the problem with the ctrl - key.
>>>>  > > Once you changed this, please commit the patch to svn.
>
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