CopperSpice Forum

Thanks so much for posting the files.

Can you let us know what error you received? Just a short description will be fine.

You can absolutely use QtCreator to develop your GUI user interface files or even write a CopperSpice application within the IDE. You simply need to download the program from the QtCreator project. Please have a look at our CS Overview documentation for the set up instructions. https://www.copperspi...

It might sound silly but please keep telling us everything you think needs improvement in the docs. Good reporting.

There should at least be some kind of note that gets picked up by the indexing that QDesktopServices::storageLocation() is now implemented by QStandardPaths. Thanks for letting us know. Any time we can improve our documentation we will do so. I have added a notation in the detailed description of t...

Sounds like we may have a place where there is a 0 and it should be nullptr. If you can locate this issue we are happy to make the change.

Barbara

The real problem with OpenSource is all of the projects seem to spin a roulette wheel when choosing a license. There are about four significant open source licenses, most of the rest are duplicates. We consider these to be the key ones: BSD, GPL, LGPL, and Apache. When we select a license for one o...

We have it going forward, just not backwards. Was this a conscious decision? The QRegExp was removed and replaced with completely redesigned QRegularExpression class. The method "lastIndexOf()" was not implemented since searching in reverse in a regex is extremely slow and inefficient. Ve...

Porting by hand, not using the tool We strongly suggest you do use PepperMill and then fix any code you decide should be improved. This will save you a good deal of time and energy. Here is the question you are asking: what is the correct way to convert a QChar into a QByteArray First of all, the Q...

We have updated our CopperSpice Overview documentation which includes information about migrating to CS. This updated section includes header name changes.

https://www.copperspice.com/docs/cs_overview/cs-migration.html#source-headers

We are aware that packages for CopperSpice have not been generated as of yet. This is definitely on the CS road map. If you are interested in working with us or want to create a pull request please let us know. I would like to reiterate that since CopperSpice is LGPL 2.1 licensed it is perfectly leg...