Yaakov, On Wednesday, 2016-03-09 23:54:04 -0600, you wrote:
> On 2016-03-05 09:02, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > currently I have two applications which I compiled myself under Cygwin: > > GPSBabel and QMapShack. Both use Qt5, both provide online help via the > > browser, and both fail doing so in my environment. The version of my > > various Qt5 packages is 5.5.1-1. > [snip] > > So I assume QDesktopServices::openUrl() at least under Cygwin is having > > a problem with blanks in path names and maybe also with the missing > > ".exe" extension (see the "Launch failed" error message). > > Searching for "QDesktopServices::openUrl spaces in PATH" (without the > quotes) turned up a lot of hits. You are right, but the ones I found refer to blanks in the path of the file TO BE OPENED. My problem is blanks in the path of the program that is used to open the file. This program is picked internally by QDesk- topServices::openUrl() and is called internally, and currently it seems the path to it must not contain blanks. Sincerely, Rainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
