Thread: How to compile Qt location example ?
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sjaensch is offline sjaensch
2010-02-01 , 09:07
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Originally Posted by danielwilms View Post
To understand how the liblocation works, please have a look at the developer guide and the liblocation API docs. Further the example is explained in the guide, which is linked on the wiki-page of the example as well. But please be aware, that the general information, you find there is a bit outdated. But the discription of the location example is quite ok.
I did all of that already and I'm happy to report that I successfully added liblocation support to my Qt application. Still, I find the example lacking, especially considering that it describes itself as a Qt example when clearly it has nothing to do with it.

I have no experience with glib/GTK+ coding. Here are some pointers as to what could be improved:
  • Use Qt for the UI (obviously).
  • Show how to integrate the glib event loop into the Qt event loop. My use case: try to get a GPS fix, but show a dialog that allows the user to abort the operation.
  • How do I need to modify .pro files to make my project compile with liblocation?

As I said, I was able to solve all of these problems. But it also meant that I spent a weekend implementing a feature that could have taken just a few hours at most.