Web Output Issue

Chris Moses · Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:48 am

Hi Massimo,

There seems to be a CSS/styling issue in the output of the web interface in QLC+. The frames don't have "position: absolute;" applied to them in CSS, so they all appear on top of one another in the top-left of the browser window. I use many frames in my virtual console, with buttons and sliders inside each.

"position: absolute;" should be on all the elements really except the parent one, which correctly has "position: relative;" on it. Can this be updated for the next release?

Which source code file would I need to change to affect the web output, if I wanted to build from source?

Cheers,
Chris

Massimo Callegari · Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:08 am

Hi Chris, can you please share your workspace ?
Maybe a screenshot would help too

Chris Moses · Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:28 am

Sure. Here are two screen shots - one showing the layout in QLC+ and one showing the layout in the browser. You can see how all the elements sit on top of one another in the top-left.

Cheers,
Chris

Chris Moses · Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:29 am

Sure. Here are two screen shots - one showing the layout in QLC+ and one showing the layout in the browser. You can see how all the elements sit on top of one another in the top-left.

Cheers,
Chris

Massimo Callegari · Tue Feb 18, 2014 1:46 pm

Hi, thanks.
Would you mind to share the project too ?
I am pretty sure I tested multiple frames. The only thing I see in your VC is that you don't enable frames headers. Maybe that's the problem

Massimo Callegari · Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:21 pm

Nevermind, found and fixed !
Thanks for spotting it out

Massimo Callegari · Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:27 pm

Hey, would you mind if I use your VC screenshot in the QLC+ website ?
I like how it looks and it can give to new users a solid impression of what is possible to achieve

Chris Moses · Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:50 pm

Sure yep, you can use the screenshot of the workspace

How do I get the updated/fixed release? I tried building the source on my Mac but it won't compile. I just keep getting..

Project ERROR: portaudio-2.0 development package not found

...but it is installed...

pkg-config --list-all | grep portaudio
portaudiocpp PortAudioCpp - Portable audio I/O C++ bindings
portaudio-2.0 PortAudio - Portable audio I/O

Any ideas?

Chris Moses · Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:51 pm

I have followed your instructions for building on a Mac - the only package that won't install or build is OLA.

Massimo Callegari · Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:05 pm

Hi, have you tried today to compile or before yesterday ?
Cause last night I've done some changes to build on Qt5 (still broken though) and portaudio is one of those things I touched

Chris Moses · Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:25 pm

OK, I just tried it again and made sure the PKG_CONFIG_PATH was set and now it doesn't mention "portaudio" but I do get this error...

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"ola::StringTrim(std::string*)", referenced from:
ola::QLCLogDestination::Write(ola::log_level, std::string const&) in qlclogdestination.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

...I downloaded your latest source from GIT.

Massimo Callegari · Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:44 pm

Yesterday I built QLC+ after updating macports and got no error. I think OLA version is 0.8.33 now.
In case you can disable the OLA plugin by commenting (#) it in plugins/plugins.pro

Chris Moses · Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:57 pm

I built the latest version of OLA this evening from GIT...

http://www.opendmx.net/index.php/OLA_Ma ... l_From_Git

...it built OK. OLA failed to install completely using macports, I forget the error message now, but it was quite convoluted

I'll try and disable OLA now in plugins.pro and see what happens.

Chris Moses · Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:58 pm

Just to add, I am using Qt 5.2.1 - maybe it's that?

Chris Moses · Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:04 am

OK, disabling OLA has worked, but now I get...

install_name_tool -id @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui ~/QLC+.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool: can't open file: /Users/Chris/QLC+.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui (No such file or directory)
make[1]: *** [install_LIBQTGUI_ID] Error 1
make: *** [sub-macx-install_subtargets-ordered] Error 2

...when I 'make install'.

Chris Moses · Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:11 am

Well, if I run the QLC.app that I built (even with the error above), it seems to ruin my lovely workspace

See the screenshot below.

Massimo Callegari · Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:11 am

Yeah, as I said before the qt5 build is still broken on osx.
Please use qt 4.8.5 for now.
Just if you want to try, do

export QTDIR=/path/to/qt5

Before building with qt5

Massimo Callegari · Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:17 am

I believe that. The Qt5 porting is not complete yet.
I'm afraid it will take a while to find out every thing that is not working there

Chris Moses · Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:33 pm

Argh! Just tried Qt 4.8.5 and I get this error...

/Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Headers/qglobal.h:331:6: error: "This
version of Mac OS X is unsupported" [-Werror,-W#warnings]

...I am using Mavericks (10.9.1). I guess I'll just have to wait until Qt5 is supported

Chris Moses · Wed Feb 19, 2014 6:39 pm

OK I managed to hack Qt 4.8.5 to work on Mavericks and I have successfully built the latest version of QLC+

You have "almost" fixed the frame positioning in web output... it seems "solo" frames have the wrong positioning still (see screen shot below). Would you be able to fix those too? Then it would be perfect