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\page known-issues.html
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\title Known Issues in 4.6.0
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\ingroup platform-specific
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\brief A summary of known issues in Qt 4.6.0 at the time of release.
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This page documents known problems with the packaging and installation in
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Qt 4.6.0, as well as issues with third party software that we have
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not been able to work around. For a list of such issues in previous Qt
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versions refer to this page in the respective documentation.
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For a list list of known bugs in Qt 4.6.0, see the \l{Task Tracker}
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An overview of known issues may also be found at:
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\l{http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/Qt460BetaKnownIssues}
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\section1 Installation Issues
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\section2 Building the Source Package on Windows 7
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\o When building Qt 4.5.0 with Windows 7, the build fails with an error
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message regarding failing to embed manifest. This a known issue with
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Windows 7, explained in the Windows 7 SDK Beta
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\l{http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/8/0/8808A472-6450-4723-9C87-977069714B27/ReleaseNotes.Htm}
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{release notes}. A workaround for this issue is to patch the
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\bold{embed_manifest_exe.prf} file with the following:
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diff --git a/mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_exe.prf b/mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_exe.prf
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index e1747f1..05f116e 100644
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--- a/mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_exe.prf
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+++ b/mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_exe.prf
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@@ -8,4 +8,9 @@ if(win32-msvc2005|win32-msvc2008):!equals(TEMPLATE_PREFIX, "vc"):equals(TEMPLATE
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QMAKE_POST_LINK = $$quote(mt.exe -nologo -manifest \"$$replace(OBJECTS_DIR,/,\\)\\$${NOPATH_TARGET}.intermediate.ma
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nifest\" -outputresource:$(DESTDIR_TARGET);1$$escape_expand(\n\t))
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QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$QMAKE_PREV_POST_LINK
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QMAKE_CLEAN += \"$$replace(OBJECTS_DIR,/,\\)\\$${NOPATH_TARGET}.intermediate.manifest\"
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+ system("echo.>$$replace(OUT_PWD,/,\\)\\$$replace(OBJECTS_DIR,/,\\)\\Windows7WorkAround.rc")
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+ RC_FILE = $$replace(OUT_PWD,/,\\)\\$$replace(OBJECTS_DIR,/,\\)\\Windows7WorkAround.rc
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\section2 Installing the Source Package on Unix systems
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\o If you download a Zip source package, you will need to convert
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Windows-style line endings (CR/LF) to Unix-style line-endings (LF) when
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you uncompress the package. To do this, give the "-a" option when you
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run the "unzip' command.
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If you fail to supply the "-a" option when unzipping the package, you
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will see the following error message when you attempt to execute the
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"bash: ./configure: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory"
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\section2 Installing on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"
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\o Performing a new install of the Qt 4.6 beta on Snow Leopard
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triggers a bug in the installer that causes the install to fail.
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Updating an existing Qt installation works fine.
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There are two workarounds, either disable spotlight for the target
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drive during the install, or do a custom install where you deselect
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documentation and examples. Run the installer again as a full
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install to get the documentation and examples installed.
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\section1 Issues with Third Party Software
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\o There is a bug in the 169.xx NVIDIA drivers on certain GeForce 8 series
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cards that is triggered by the OpenGL paint engine when using QPainter
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on a QGLWidget to draw paths and polygons. Some other painting
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operations that end up in the path fallback are affected as well. The
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bug causes the whole X server to repeatedly hang for several seconds at
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\o There is an issue with NVIDIA's 9xxx driver series on X11 that causes a
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crash in cases where there are several \l{QGLContext}s and the extended
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composition modes are used (the composition modes between and including
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QPainter::CompositionMode_Multiply and
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QPainter::CompositionMode_Exclusion). This affects the composition mode
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demo in Qt 4.5, for example. The crash does not occur in newer versions
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\o When using version 6.14.11.6921 of the NVIDIA drivers for the GeForce
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6600 GT under Windows XP, Qt applications which use drag and drop will
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display reduced size drag and drop icons when run alongside
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applications that use OpenGL. This problem can be worked around by
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reducing the level of graphics acceleration provided by the driver, or
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by disabling hardware acceleration completely.
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\o With NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT (driver version 6.14.11.7824), a fullscreen
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QGLWidget flickers when child widgets are shown/hidden. The workaround
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for this is to use \l{QWidget::}{setGeometry()} with a width/height 1
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pixel bigger than your geometry and call \l{QWidget::}{show()}.
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\o A bug in the Firebird database can cause an application to crash when
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\c{fbembed.dll} is unloaded. The bug is fixed in version 2.5.
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\o If a sheet is opened for a given window, clicking the title bar of that
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window will cause it to flash. This behavior has been reported to Apple
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(bug number 5827676).