Reinhard wrote:
cmorley wrote: in usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/designer/python
add a link to qtvcp_plugin.py
This kind of advice is better than in the tutorial.
When I know, how things should be, I can search on my own.
On my system, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/designer contains only compiled shared libs - no directory python.
I tried both: linking qtvcp_plugin.py directly and creating a subdirectory python and put the link there ...
No change - the designer keeps on ignoring linuxcnc.
by the way - i found qtvcp_plugin.py in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qtvcp/plugins/qtvcp_plugin.py
May be searchpath of designer is different for shared libs and python modules?
Yes I pushed an update to the docs - I'm sure I'll have to update them again when we figure this out.
yes /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/designer/python is the right directory - you may have to add the python folder.
yes the link should be to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qtvcp/plugins/qtvcp_plugin.py
next you have copied the libpyqt5_py2.so file into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/designer ?
and is it the right version - looks like 5.7?
running from the terminal may give some error messages (if you are not already)
python.pyqt5 versions of libraries is what you need.
What distribution are you using?
SVG library _should_ not actually be necessary - just one widget is not available (but I haven't confirmed recently if it would cause a designer error - but it would give an error message in the terminal)
Chris M
