[Kmymoney-devel] Debugging plugins

[Chris]

Hi Allan

If you look at the source of the ui file there is no font specified. So you 
are picking up the font *QT* chooses as the default.

Original csvimport ui file..

   <property name="font">
    <font/>

modified using qtdesigner file...

   <property name="font">
    <font>
     <family>Arial</family>
    </font>
   </property>

Like you I have found fonts are not the only problems. Now if I can just get 
a sane build environment ...


Chris

On 30/03/2014 9:19 AM, Allan wrote:
> On 29/03/14 22:19, Chris wrote:
>> Hi Allen
>>
>> With the font issues I found that the font was not specified in the ui
>> file so defaults where applied. Those defaults caused problems. So it
>> may be the defaults on your machine are more suited to your desktop
>> environment than the default on other desktops. On windows, QT uses an
>> internationalised font "ms shell dlg 2" which may or may not be a good
>> choice. To get a consistent look and feel across desktops requires a
>> consistent font.
>>
>> It may not be ubuntu's fault.
>>
>> If you could attach a patch that would be wonderful
>>
>>
>> Chris
>
> Hi Chris
>
> In my early days with the plugin, I did not specify a font for the 
> tablewidget, and as I then happened to be using a xbuntu machine, The UI, 
> in QtDesigner, showed the font as Ubuntu.  It was pointed out to me that 
> other systems might not have that font and that I should specify a generic 
> font, so I have since specified DejaVu Sans.  When I started looking into 
> your problem, I switched from Mint to my Ubuntu system, and there the font 
> shows as Ubuntu.  So, I'm pretty sure that it is Ubuntu that makes that 
> change.
>
> Your "ms shell dlg 2" font is probably the result of Windows doing 
> something similar.
>
> The problem, I've found though, is not directly to do with the font, but 
> is caused by several layout parameters that get changed.  So, I now start 
> on my Mint PC, get it working and looking correct, then copy that file to 
> my Ubuntu.  The changes I've mentioned have now been altered. When the 
> plugin starts, as you found, the dialog buttons have almost dropped off 
> the window. Also, on the Banking wizard page, the layout has expanded 
> horizontally and the rightmost combo boxes are getting clipped.
>
> So, I then make the parameter changes, the buttons etc. now reappear, but 
> the horizontal scroll bar has gone.  I then have to do some tuning to find 
> a happy medium.  So what I now do is set the layout parameters in the 
> plugin initialisation, and that seems to be satisfactory.  I just hope 
> that it helps you on Windows.
>
> I'll send you a patch as soon as I'm happy with it.
>
> Allan
>
>>
>> On 29/03/2014 9:14 PM, Allan wrote:
>>> On 29/03/14 01:21, Chris wrote:
>>>> Hi Guys
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to debug the csv import plugin layout problem. It appears
>>>> the default font may be a large part of the problem but not all of it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Cristian
>>>
>>> Coming in here from a different angle.  Here, I've sorted out the
>>> layout problem with Ubuntu-type distros, by applying some settings in
>>> the plugin code, instead of relying on the UI file settings.
>>> Obviously, Ubuntu over-rides the UI settings, presumably to make
>>> things look nice, even if the result is a broken plugin.  It may well
>>> be that the same happens on Windows, so my fix may help you.
>>>
>>> I've got slightly side-tracked by some other minor tidyness issues I
>>> noticed, but I could send you a patch for you to try, if you wish.
>>> It's only concerns the layout, not the icon thing your screen shot
>>> showed.
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>
>>>> What I can't work out is to how to actually debug the plugin inside of
>>>> msvc2010. KMyMoney does not load the plugin at all when run from the
>>>> build directory and when installed it loads the plugin from the libs
>>>> directory but because there is no symbol file msvc cant step into it.
>>>>
>>>> It seems mildly insane to have to install and copy the symbols into the
>>>> libs folder everytime I make a code change!!!
>>>>
>>>> I have tried telling QT to use the build folder but it seems to
>>>> ignore it
>>>>
>>>> I have added the path to the bin folder to QT_PLUGIN_PATH I have also
>>>> tried adding the application path by calling
>>>> QCoreApplication::addLibraryPath(QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath());
>>>> inside
>>>> the KApplication Constructor
>>>>
>>>> Both methods succesfully prepend the build folder to the plugin path but
>>>> it makes no difference. The plugins (none of them) are loaded.
>>>>
>>>> All the plugins are in the same folder as the application. The app runs,
>>>> it just has no loaded plugins.
>>>>
>>>> I also added the application path to the PATH env. No luck whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>> Without copying the plugins to the lib folder each time how can I
>>>> debug it?
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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