Qt 5.3.0 Known Issues

Known Issues – Qt 5.3.0

All platforms

• Check that your system meets Qt’s requirements [doc-snapshot.qt.io].
• All open issues can be found from Jira: https://bugreports.qt.io

• Installation over the existing installation not supported
  • QTIFW-278: SDK 5.1.0 rc1 : installation over existing installation fails

• Examples in Qt Creator Welcome mode is empty
  • Workaround: Start Qt Creator with clean settings (e.g. for temporary testing: ‘-settingspath /some/temp/dir’

• Qt Print Support
  • The platform backends have been almost entirely re-written for Beta 2 and may not function properly. See the blog at http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/help_test_qtprintsupport_changes_in_qt_53_beta_1 for more details on how to test.

• QQuickWidget
  • QTBUG-39033: Text fields do not receive focus. This is fixed for 5.3.1: https://codereview.qt.io/85879

Linux

• QTBUG-35516: example directory in binary package has wrong permissions (creating problems for global installations)
  • Workaround: Fix permissions with ‘chmod g+rx,o+rx 5.2.0/gcc_64/examples’

Windows

• if you want to install a Qt for Visual Studio be sure you have the related Visual Studio installed
• Qt Creator does not support Windows XP.
  • Workaround: Disable ‘Welcome’, ‘QmlProfiler’, QmlDesigner’ plugins

• Qt Creator does require a working DirectX/DirectDraw backend
  • Enable Accelerated 3D support if you run Windows in e.g. VirtualBox, VMWare

• QTBUG-32864: WMF plugin fails to load on Windows Vista (no service found for – “org.qt-project.qt.mediaplayer”)
  • Workaround: If you target Windows Vista, rebuild the plugin (qtmultimedia/src/plugins/wmf) using the Windows Vista SDK.

• QTBUG-33788: Widgets in QGraphicsView via QGraphicsProxyWidget can’t receive QTabletEvent

• Qt Print Support
  • May show the wrong paper name when setting paper by page dimensions.
  • QTBUG-38897 [https] Setting the paper source to Windows native ids does not work

WinRT / Windows Phone

• If you want to install Qt for Windows RT or Phone, please have also the according Visual Studio installed (Visual Studio for Windows, Visual Studio for Windows Phone)
• Note that not all mobile related modules are supported (e.g. Geopositioning, bluetooth, etc)
• Even though Qt Cloud Services are part of the package, they are not supported yet.
• Qt Quick Controls might have some wrong behaviors.
• Automatic kit registration wrongly sets up WinRT target as local desktop target. This is related to the WinRT plugin not enabled by default. Please open Help->About Plugins, enable WinRT and restart Qt Creator

Mac OS X

• QTBUG-31724: can’t debug into qt libs on Mac (it hasn’t worked since 5.0.0)
  • Workaround: Compile Qt on your own

• QTBUG-35211: Apps using Qt WebKit 2.0 are not deployable on Mac OS X (QtWebProcess fails to deploy/start)

• QTBUG-35317: Qt Quick1 apps that use Qt WebKit 1.0 fail to deploy on Mac OS X

• QTBUG-35506: Qt Quick Controls applications launched using qmlscene might not display the menubar until they lose and regain focus

• QTBUG-38835: REG: QtQuick.Dialogs.FontDialog doesn’t display on iOS and OS X. workaround: FontDialog: restore the font and weight list on iOS and OSX [codereview.qt.io] . Will be fixed in stable: Fix interaction of garbage collector with JS objects during QML type instantiation [codereview.qt.io]

Android

See “Qt for Android known issues“

iOS

See “Qt for iOS known issues“

BlackBerry 10

See “Qt5 Status on BlackBerry 10“

QNX

See “Qt Status on QNX“

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