Re: Error on Mint 22 with Gambas 3.20.2 when adding the gb.gui.qt.webview component

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 04/04/2025 à 16:40, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> Am 04.04.25 um 16:02 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> > If you use 'gb.gui.qt', it will just try to load the QT component 
> > specified by the 'GB_GUI' variable if present. Otherwise it will load 
> > the best Qt component it thinks.
>
> This is not the case. The error is raised whatever QT version (or GTK) I 
> choose for launching the IDE.

This is what I saw in your system information: 'GB_GUI=gb.gtk3'.

> > But as 'GB_GUI' is set to 'gb.gtk3' because you ran that version of 
> > the IDE, you get this error.
> There is no difference whether I choose QT or GTK.
> > Maybe 'gb.gui.qt' should load the best QT component it thinks in that 
> > case instead of raising an error? 
>
> I don't know the concept behind the gb.gui.qt component. We had a 
> similar problem years ago where you modified the selection of the "best" 
> QT version.
>
> Best regards
>
> Claus

The error message is from 'gb.gui.qt.webkit': it displays this message 
if 'GB_GUI' is neither 'gb.qt4' or 'gb.qt5'.

Moreover, that component is deprecated, you should not use anymore, as 
QT Webkit libraries are not provided anymore by recent distributions.

--
Benoît Minisini.