Marble as Qt Designer Plugin on WindowsXP

[peirenjun]

The application "marble" could run well with the dll "marblewidget.dll". does not it mean the dll is useful?

[wysota]

If it links with marblewidget.dll then yes. I think it might be easiest to just call one of the authors of marble and ask them directly.

[peirenjun]

hehe

thanks very much! I will try!

[pierreRFT]

Hi,


I try to add the MarbleWidget in my application with Qt creator V1.3.0 based on Qt 4.6.0 running on Windows XP.

I had try the 2 ways :
- Add a MarbleWidget with Qt Designer like explained here : http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/MarbleDesigner
- Using Marble API like explained here : http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/MarbleCPlusPlus

But the 2 ways failed!

I understand that to use MarbleWidget or Marble API on Windows I had to rebuild it.

- I downloaded the source code from : http://edu.kde.org/marble/download.php
- I installed CMake.
- I follow the instructions from "Build Marble as a Qt only application" : http://edu.kde.org/marble/obtain.php and http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/MarbleDesigner
1) Launch Qt Command prompt
2) Add cmake and mingw-32 (C:\Qt\2009.05\mingw\bin) to the PATH
3) Put Marble sources in D:\marble, and create a D:\marble-plugin directory
4) command "cmake -DQTONLY=ON -DWITH_DESIGNER_PLUGIN=ON -G "MinGW Makefiles" ../marble"
5) command "mingw32-make"
6) command "mingw32-make install"

Until now, no problem.

C:\Program files\marble is created and I can found libMarbleWidgetPlugin.dll, libMarbleNavigatorPlugin.dll , libLatLonEditPlugin.dll in C:\Qt\2009.05\qt\plugins\designer directory.

But I don't have the file libMarbleWidgetPlugin.so or MarbleWidgetPlugin.so in my Qt's designer directory like explained here : http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/MarbleDesigner

Perhaps this file exists only on any linux OS ?

When I launch Qt designer, to add a MarbleWidget (my first way), I don't have the Mable Widget in my Widget Box.
And in the Help==>Plugins Infos window of Qt designer menu, I can see that the C:/Qt/2009.05/qt/plugins/designer/libLatLonEditPlugin.dll (and others Marble plugins) are in the Failed Plugins directory !
(You can see attached file : "Plugins_Info_QtDesigner_screenshot.png").
It seems that there is a mix with debug and release library ??


I try the 2nd way using the API marble :
In my .pro file I had :

INCLUDEPATH += ../marble-plugin/src/lib
INCLUDEPATH += "C:/Program Files/marble/include/marble"
QMAKE_LIBDIR += ../marble-plugin/src/lib
win32:LIBS += libmarblewidget.dll


In main.cpp is :

...

#include <MarbleWidget.h>

using namespace Marble;

....

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);

// Create a Marble QWidget without a parent
MarbleWidget *mapWidget = new MarbleWidget();

// Load the OpenStreetMap map
mapWidget->setMapThemeId("earth/openstreetmap/openstreetmap.dgml");

// Set a server for downloading map data, if needed
// mapWidget->setDownloadUrl("http://download.kde.org/apps/marble/");
mapWidget->show();

return a.exec();
}

The program build but when I start the program, I've a runtime error window !! (See "Runtime_Error_screenshot.png" attached file).


Another thing :
When I start the marble.exe in C:\Program FIles\marble, I have a error window (see "Error_Window_MarbleExe" attached file).
Is it normal ??
For information, before compiling marble I've install Marble-Qt 0.8 for MS_Windows from http://edu.kde.org/marble/download.php.
The Marble.exe in C:\Program Files\Marble 0.8.0 works well.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Bests regards.