[Kmymoney-devel] Debugging plugins

[Allan]

On 29/03/14 23:35, Chris wrote:
> Hmm
>
> Perhaps dejavu sans needs to be included in the install package as its
> not an installed font in mswin7, by including it in the install some of
> these inconstancies may be ironed out.

It now appears that my choice of DejaVu Sans doesn't get into the build 
anyway.

>
> if installing a font is a bit over the top QT includes...
> int QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont ( const QString & fileName )
>
> This can load the font before the UI is rendered.
>
> What other fonts does kmymoney use? it may be best to do this for all
> fonts.

The KMM settings allow the user either to use system settings or to 
specfy his own choices (two of).

> Chris

Allan

> 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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