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brilliant · Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

I have NetBeans and Qt installed my mac running OS 10.5.8. While I can create a Qt form, I can not view it in Qt Designer within NetBeans. When I try to open the form, I get a and error

Unable to run "designer." Do you have Qt directory in the PATH. I have tried changing the PATH environment variable from Terminal, but I have not solve the problem. Has anyone else seen this issue?

Vladimir Voskresensky · Posted via mailing list.

brilliant wrote:

Valeriy Soldatov · Posted via mailing list.

Can you try this command: export
PATH=$PATH:/Developer/Applications/Qt/Designer.app/Contents/MacOS

dabitbol · Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 4

I have same issue. I ve made on Terminal

[dabitbol]$ vi .profile
I filled the following line.

export $PATH:/Developer/Applications/Qt

Then
- I rebooted my computer
- I checked that the PATH variable was properly set and it was ok by doing a
echo $PATH

But I still have the same trouble as you on mac os x 10.5.8. with netbeans 6.7
When I open the file out of netbeans ie directly from the finder, I have no issue as it opens quickly .
But from whithin Netbeans, i get same error "unable to run designer ..."

I dont understand Valeriy's answer about PATH=$PATH:/Developer/Applications/Qt/Designer.app/Contents/MacOS because Designer.app is not a directory but a real application file

Thanks for any help.

Valeriy Soldatov · Posted via mailing list.

dabitbol · Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 4

Hello Valeriy

thanks for your explanations. So i ve set the path as you said in my .profile
and I ve done this to launch netbeans from terminal as you proposed

(dabitbol)$ pwd
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/NetBeans
(dabitbol)$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Developer/
Applications/Qt/Designer.app/Contents/MacOS
(dabitbol)$ open NetBeans\ 6.7.1.app/

Then once Netbeans was opened, I could open the ui file with Qt designer from within Netbeans . So your solution worked .Thank you (I guess that it could even work with path set to /Developer/Applications/Qt/ only but I will test later)

However, If I launch Netbeans from the Dock or the Applications folder from the finder by clicking on the app, i have still the same issue...
any idea why the $PATH is not taken into account when I launch
from the Dock ?

How to fix this ?

Thank you very much

dabitbol · Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 4

Ok actually setting the PATH this way in .profile file will make path available to netbeans only when it is launched from terminal command line , but not from finder or any Mac OS X GUI.

Nevertheless, the nicer and cleaner way is to make this path available for all users by writing a Netbeans file under /etc/paths.d/ in the following way

(dabitbol)$ cd /etc/paths.d
(dabitbol)$ sudo
(dabitbol)$ password: <enter your admin password>
(dabitbol)$ vim Netbeans

then copy
/Developer/Applications/Qt/Designer.app/Contents/MacOS
inside this file

Save it and you re done.

You can get rid now of /Users/dabitbol/.profile file where dabitbol is actually my username ( put yours instead)

Anyway , it still does not solve the issue about launching Netbeans from the finder.

dabitbol · Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 4

Now you can create a shortcut to launch the application from the desktop by making an Apple Script

From finder , click on ScriptEditor.app in AppleScript folder

enter the following text

invlol · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 1

I dont know is Netbenas 6.8 solve this, i have the same problem to unabble open designer in 6.7.1 and whit dabidbol post it work but i dont want to open netbeans whit script so i search about PATH in mac because i dont have any .profile i have to created and even open designer.

I see the path in terminal:
echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Developer/Applications/Qt/Designer.app/Contents/MacOS:/usr/X11/bin

and designer still dont open..

i find a soution without make the script for run Netbeans:

Open terminal
cd /Users/NAME_OF_USER
mkdir .MacOSX
cd .MacOSX
touch environment.plist
open environment.plist
under root create PATH and put all PATH like in the picture
restart ur computer
and done!

i dont know if anyone have this problem but i want to share my solution,
if it good or bad well its on you.

Alexey Vladykin · Posted via mailing list.

I've filed a bug against NetBeans to track this problem:
https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178742

Alexey

apo2 · Joined: 22 May 2011 Posts: 4

Valeriy's export command worked great for me. Thanks for the help!

robertcohang · Joined: 29 May 2011 Posts: 3

Had the same problem, thanks for the help! Smile

esmer · Joined: 31 Jan 2012 Posts: 3

i am new to Qt and trying to learn it and so i have installed the sdk 4.7.0 on MacOS Leopard successfully but i just gave a shot to try a simple Hello World from the Book “GUI programming with C++” but it cant build the program it gives me an error message. cell phone spy software Thank you for the assistance! Now solved.

Sprites · Joined: 06 Feb 2012 Posts: 3

I had the same problem whem I installed Qt on Mac (if memory doenst fail me I think it was that same error). But after I install the IPhone SDK, Qt programs started to compile and run fine. I dont know why, but it solve it.