diff -r 000000000000 -r 1918ee327afb doc/src/getting-started/known-issues.qdoc --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/src/getting-started/known-issues.qdoc Mon Jan 11 14:00:40 2010 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ +/**************************************************************************** +** +** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). +** All rights reserved. +** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com) +** +** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit. +** +** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$ +** No Commercial Usage +** This file contains pre-release code and may not be distributed. +** You may use this file in accordance with the terms and conditions +** contained in the Technology Preview License Agreement accompanying +** this package. +** +** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage +** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser +** General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software +** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the +** packaging of this file. 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For a list of such issues in previous Qt + versions refer to this page in the respective documentation. + + For a list list of known bugs in Qt %VERSION%, see the \l{Task Tracker} + on the Qt website. + + An overview of known issues may also be found at: + \l{http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/Qt460BetaKnownIssues} + {Known Issues Wiki}. + + \section1 Installation Issues + + \section2 Building the Source Package on Windows 7 + + \list + \o When building Qt 4.5.0 with Windows 7, the build fails with an error + message regarding failing to embed manifest. This a known issue with + Windows 7, explained in the Windows 7 SDK Beta + \l{http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/8/0/8808A472-6450-4723-9C87-977069714B27/ReleaseNotes.Htm} + {release notes}. A workaround for this issue is to patch the + \bold{embed_manifest_exe.prf} file with the following: + + \code + diff --git a/mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_exe.prf b/mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_exe.prf + index e1747f1..05f116e 100644 + --- a/mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_exe.prf + +++ b/mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_exe.prf + @@ -8,4 +8,9 @@ if(win32-msvc2005|win32-msvc2008):!equals(TEMPLATE_PREFIX, "vc"):equals(TEMPLATE + QMAKE_POST_LINK = $$quote(mt.exe -nologo -manifest \"$$replace(OBJECTS_DIR,/,\\)\\$${NOPATH_TARGET}.intermediate.ma + nifest\" -outputresource:$(DESTDIR_TARGET);1$$escape_expand(\n\t)) + QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$QMAKE_PREV_POST_LINK + QMAKE_CLEAN += \"$$replace(OBJECTS_DIR,/,\\)\\$${NOPATH_TARGET}.intermediate.manifest\" + + isEmpty(RC_FILE) { + + system("echo.>$$replace(OUT_PWD,/,\\)\\$$replace(OBJECTS_DIR,/,\\)\\Windows7WorkAround.rc") + + RC_FILE = $$replace(OUT_PWD,/,\\)\\$$replace(OBJECTS_DIR,/,\\)\\Windows7WorkAround.rc + + } + + + } + \endcode + + \section2 Installing the Source Package on Unix systems + + \o If you download a Zip source package, you will need to convert + Windows-style line endings (CR/LF) to Unix-style line-endings (LF) when + you uncompress the package. To do this, give the "-a" option when you + run the "unzip' command. + + If you fail to supply the "-a" option when unzipping the package, you + will see the following error message when you attempt to execute the + configure command: + "bash: ./configure: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory" + \endlist + + \section2 Installing on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" + \list + \o Performing a new install of the Qt 4.6 beta on Snow Leopard + triggers a bug in the installer that causes the install to fail. + Updating an existing Qt installation works fine. + + There are two workarounds, either disable spotlight for the target + drive during the install, or do a custom install where you deselect + documentation and examples. Run the installer again as a full + install to get the documentation and examples installed. + \endlist + + \section1 Issues with Third Party Software + + \section2 X11 + + \list + \o There is a bug in the 169.xx NVIDIA drivers on certain GeForce 8 series + cards that is triggered by the OpenGL paint engine when using QPainter + on a QGLWidget to draw paths and polygons. Some other painting + operations that end up in the path fallback are affected as well. The + bug causes the whole X server to repeatedly hang for several seconds at + a time. + \o There is an issue with NVIDIA's 9xxx driver series on X11 that causes a + crash in cases where there are several \l{QGLContext}s and the extended + composition modes are used (the composition modes between and including + QPainter::CompositionMode_Multiply and + QPainter::CompositionMode_Exclusion). This affects the composition mode + demo in Qt 4.5, for example. The crash does not occur in newer versions + of the drivers. + \endlist + + \section2 Windows + + \list + \o When using version 6.14.11.6921 of the NVIDIA drivers for the GeForce + 6600 GT under Windows XP, Qt applications which use drag and drop will + display reduced size drag and drop icons when run alongside + applications that use OpenGL. This problem can be worked around by + reducing the level of graphics acceleration provided by the driver, or + by disabling hardware acceleration completely. + + \o With NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT (driver version 6.14.11.7824), a fullscreen + QGLWidget flickers when child widgets are shown/hidden. The workaround + for this is to use \l{QWidget::}{setGeometry()} with a width/height 1 + pixel bigger than your geometry and call \l{QWidget::}{show()}. + + \o A bug in the Firebird database can cause an application to crash when + \c{fbembed.dll} is unloaded. The bug is fixed in version 2.5. + + \endlist + + \section2 Mac OS X + + \list + \o If a sheet is opened for a given window, clicking the title bar of that + window will cause it to flash. This behavior has been reported to Apple + (bug number 5827676). + \endlist +*/