RE: Tester with MXE Windows 7 (or just Windows) and Qt 5.8 or greater

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel J Sebald [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 4:19 PM
> To: JohnD; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Tester with MXE Windows 7 (or just Windows) and Qt 5.8 or
> greater
> 
> On 06/12/2018 11:59 AM, JohnD wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: JohnD [mailto:address@hidden
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 12:42 PM
> >> To: address@hidden
> >> Cc: 'Daniel J Sebald'
> >> Subject: Re: Tester with MXE Windows 7 (or just Windows) and Qt 5.8 or
> >> greater
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Message: 1
> >>> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:05:11 -0500
> >>> From: Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden>
> >>> To: address@hidden
> >>> Subject: Tester with MXE Windows 7 (or just Windows) and Qt 5.8 or
> >>>   greater
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> >>> Is there someone using Windows 7 or the MXE equivalent as well as Qt
> >>> series 5.8 or higher?  If so, could you help confirm if there is a bug
> >>> in which the title bar of a floated QDockWidget (i.e., GUI subpanel) is
> >>> lost?  This would only involve compiling/running a development version
> >>> within the past few weeks and making observations.  The bug report is
> >> here:
> >>>
> >>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54078
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> I submitted a patch to the tracker [1], that updates mxe-octave from 5.7.1
> >> to Qt 5.11.0, I haven't pushed it to mxe yet, as only just got it working
> >> for mxe octave 64 bit and not yet tested for anything else.
> >>
> >> For it, using the current stable branch (as of this email), on my Windows
> > 10
> >> machine, I see the title bars and dock buttons ok.  I was seeing the
> > missing
> >> dock buttons yesterday with the recent stable and Qt 5.7.1
> >>
> >> I'll try a new build with the latest dev next.
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?9655
> >
> >
> > Actually I just realized it was the dev octave of a day or so ago, with Qt
> > 5.7.1 that I have installed that is missing the dock buttons.
> >
> > Will report back later when a new version of dev is compiled with Qt5.11
> 
> This is a great help, thanks.  That will save us a lot of guesswork and
> avoid pursuing things that aren't the core issue.
> 
> Dan


Finally got a build - Running a default branch octave (9ef52c25d543 Use 
consistent names in GUI), with Qt 5.11, there are no dock buttons on the 
windows when they are undocked.