use Teststand API in Qt

[jibintao]

Hi,

I'd like to use Test API in Qt, but there are so many errors that the project could not be built successfully. did anyone do this before? Thanks.

Michael Ji from Shanghai, PRC.

[jibintao]

additionally, Microsoft VC++2010 as the default compiler in my project, and I tried with a new MFC project, it runs well, the same compiler but different result, who meets the same issue? thanks.

[Norbert_B]

Are you referring to this Qt? If yes, please note that no NI software product has official support for this environment.

I never worked with this, and i dont understand the reference to "other programming languages" on that wiki-page.

Can you please provide more information on your application? Are you talking about code modules or are you talking about customizing an UI?

Norbert

[jibintao]

Thanks for your feedback, yes, I used the open source Qt library to develop GUI and Microsoft VC++ compiler as thedefault compiler, I just create a new project, and include the. CPP and.h file just like the MFC example which provided in the directory of teststand installation path, but the project could not be build successfully, if create a MFC project, everything goes well.

[Norbert_B]

TestStand is an ActiveX Server. Is it possible, that Qt can't handle ActiveX at all?

Alos, please note that TestStand heavily takes use of ActiveX controls for implementation of UIs. You can implement your custom controls and remove the ActiveX interface completely from the UI panel, but that's nothing the NI UI examples do. I can imagine that these controls make Qt to throw the errors.

Again, i point out that NI never supported Qt, so you have to try a lot on your own.

Btw: What is the reason that you cannot use the UI as available as example?

Norbert

[dug9000]

The MFC UI code is specific to MFC, so copying that code to a Qt project is not likely to work. We do not currently have an example UI which uses Qt rather than MFC. As long as Qt supports hosting ActiveX controls it should be possible, but you would have to write such a UI yourself or find someone else who has already done so.

Hope this helps,

-Doug