Re: GUi won't start

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 11, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:

> John W. Eaton wrote:
>> On 10/11/2013 04:13 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>> On 10/11/2013 03:54 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Looks like getting qt-webkit in MXE is extremely easy: just deleting the
>>>> line
>>>> 
>>>> -no-webkit \
>>>> 
>>>> from file
>>>> 
>>>> <mxe-octave-dir>/src/qt.mk
>>>> 
>>>> gets QtWebKit4.dll built. In the mxe log for octave I see that the GUI
>>>> will be (cross-) built now.
>>> 
>>> OK, that's good to know. But I'm still not sure whether it is really
>>> best to use a full web browser to display the community news text. For
>>> our purposes, using a simple text object like QLabel will probably be
>>> just as good and not add more unnecessary bloat.
>> 
>> Or, probably better, QTextBrowser. My current idea is attached.
> 
> (Our thread posts cross each other)
> 
> OK, I'll see if I can try it out this weekend (originally I planned to fix 
> the Dutch nl_NL.ts translation :-) ).
> If it works, should QtWebKit be removed from configure.ac ? (I don't see that 
> in the patch).
> 
> Oh it works for Ben, well I suppose it's OK then.
> 
> Philip

The webkit version works for me as well.

Ben