[Gambas-user] Debian problem step 3.5.4 to 3.8.4

[Ian Haywood]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Gianluigi <bagonergi at ...626...> wrote:
> Hello to all,
> a friend of ours of Gambas-it forum, runs Debian and updated from version
> 3.5.4 to 3.8.4.
> He can no longer use the old qt4 projects.
> He tried compile, compile all, refresh, reload … but nothing.
> Changing with gb.gui.qt in some projects the Fmain.class disappears and in
> the other Fmain.form.
> On Update all forms he gets this message: “Unable to update all forms! Too
> many arguments. ProjectUpdateAllForms.5941”.

Is he/she using TextEdit?

This is the problem I have run into: Debian no longer supports Qt4,
and Qt5 on Gambas
has no TextEdit, so my project doesn't load.

I would like to enter in another plea for TextEdit to be supported on Qt5.
Previous discussions have been around a Gambas-native rich text
editor: agree that's a
lot of work, but also unnecessary: Qt5 has a rich text editor (see
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/richtext.html)
I don't see why that cannot be used.

I'd have a crack at doing it myself but I have limited time and
haven't used C++/Qt for many years
so it would take some time to relearn.
Would be happy to pay if there are others able to here.

ian