Qt 5.3.0 Beta 1 Known Issues

Known Issues – Qt 5.3.0 Beta1

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’

• QtPrintSupport
  • 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.

• QtQml
  • QTBUG-37795: List models with custom object properties cannot be instantiated.

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

• QtPrintSupport
  • May show the wrong paper name when setting paper by page dimensions.

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 QtWebKit 2 are not deployable on Mac OS X (QtWebProcess fails to deploy/start)

• QTBUG-35317: Qtquick1 apps that use qtwebkit1 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

Android

See “Qt for Android known issues“

iOS

See “Qt for iOS known issues“

BlackBerry 10

See “Qt5 Status on BlackBerry 10“

Enginio

• QTBUG-37902 Source package fails to build

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