[Paraview] Problems in loading plugin

[Takuya OSHIMA]

Rafael, nice to hear your plugin now works :)

Indeed, I'm interested in the real Qt version used for the Kitware's
win32-x86 package too, since the weird GUI that Rafael reported is
quite what one will see in case of Qt version mismatch.

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN

From: Rafael March <rafaelmarch3 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Problems in loading plugin
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:55:08 -0700 (PDT)

> *
> Hi Mr. Oshima,                                                                
>                                                                               
> Thanks a lot for your help. I was trying, without success, to do this for a   
> week, and just now I realized what was wrong !                                
>                                                                               
> First of all, I was trying to load my plugin having compiled it in debug mode,
> not release. When I changed this, I could load it without problems, but the Qt
> GUI was quite weird. Then, as you said, I compiled ParaView with Qt 4.3.3     
> (instead of Qt 4.3.5, as the Wiki indicates) and pointed my plugin to THIS    
> distribution. I managed to compile it, and now it runs pretty well with the   
> ParaView version distributed by the website.                                  
>                                                                               
> ParaView developers, this may be an error in the Wiki. Is the version in the  
> "Downloads" section of the website REALLY compiled with Qt 4.3.5 ?            
>                                                                               
> Regards,                                                                      
> Rafael March.                                                                 
>                                                                               
> --- On Mon, 3/23/09, Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp> wrote:        
> 
>     From: Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>                          
>     Subject: Re: [Paraview] Problems in loading plugin                        
>     To: rafaelmarch3 at yahoo.com                                                
>     Cc: paraview at paraview.org                                                 
>     Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 4:45 PM                                     
>                                                                               
>     Hi Rafael,                                                                
>                                                                               
>     I'm not sure if this helps, but I noticed one thing while I was           
>     solving a DLL problem about which I reported recently.                    
>                                                                               
>     If you run the Qt assitant binary included in                             
>     paraview-3.4.0-win32-x86.exe (you may have to add a .exe suffix since     
>     it is simply named "assistant") and select Help->About Qt, a dialog       
>     appears saying "This program uses Qt ... version 4.3.3." Hence my         
>     doubt is that it in fact is Qt 4.3.3 that was used to build the           
>     Kitware's package.                                                        
>                                                                               
>     p.s. You may also want to make sure you are doing a Release (not          
>     Debug) build.                                                             
>                                                                               
>     Regards,                                                                  
>     Takuya                                                                    
>                                                                               
>     Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.                                                      
>     Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University                                
>     8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN                 
> 
>     From: Rafael March <rafaelmarch3 at yahoo.com>                               
>     Subject: [Paraview] Problems in loading plugin                            
>     Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:29:10 -0700 (PDT)                               
>                                                                               
>     > *                                                                       
>     > Hi,                                                                     
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>                                                                               
>     > As Berk corrected me, I've compiled my plugin under the same Qt version 
>     of the                                                                    
>     > ParaView distro which is in the website. Now, it is built under the     
>     following                                                                 
>     > environment:                                                            
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>                                                                               
>     > plugin:                                                                 
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>                                                                               
>     >   • Operating System: Windows Vista Business - SP1                      
>                                                                               
>     >   • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 8.0.50727.867     
>                                                                               
>     >   • no python                                                           
>                                                                               
>     >   • Qt 4.3.5 open source version                                        
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>     > ParaView of Kitware's site:                                             
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>                                                                               
>     > paraview-3.4.0-win32-x86.exe:                                           
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>                                                                               
>     >   • Built on Windows XP Professional Version 2002 (Service Pack 3)      
>                                                                               
>     >   • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 8.0.50727.762     
>                                                                               
>     >   • python 2.5.2                                                        
>                                                                               
>     >   • Qt 4.3.5 open source version                                        
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>                                                                               
>     > But is still doesn't work ! I got another machine that never saw        
>     ParaView                                                                  
>     > before, installed it, and tryied to load the plugin. Then I get a       
>     message like                                                              
>     > "The file "blabla.dll" is not a valid Qt plugin.                        
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>                                                                               
>     > I'm wondering if the problem is the slight difference between the       
>     visual                                                                    
>     > studio versions. Or maybe the OS. What can be wrong ? Why I can't load  
>     my                                                                        
>     > plugin with the ParaView binaries provided in the website ?             
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
>                                                                               
>     > Regards,                                                                
>                                                                               
>     > Rafael March.                                                           
>                                                                               
>     >                                                                         
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