On 08/08/2013 12:38 AM, Aaron McCarthy wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 05:34:14 PM christopher.l...@thurweb.ch wrote: > > > > "I believe the goal for QtLocation to be included with Qt is 5.2..." > > > > > > But isn't QtLocation included in the SailfishAlpha 2 ? > > > > > > I am confused on this: In the Alpha2 toolchain I find > > > > /Users/christopherlamb/SailfishOSAlpha5/mersdk/targets/SailfishOS-i486-x86/u > > > sr/lib/qt5/qml/QtLocation. > > > > > > The SDK Control Center also shows qt5-qtlocation is installed in the > > > toolchain. > > > > Qt Location will be included in the SDK. >
That's great to hear, as many apps use location nowadays. > > On the Emulator, "zypper se location" showed qt5-qtlocation was not > > > installed, so I ran "zypper in qt5-qtlocation". > > > > > > However when I ran my app, I get the error > > > " > > > > file:///opt/sdk/landedQt5_21/usr/share/landedQt5_21/otherqml/GPSApp.qml:6:1: > > > module "QtLocation" is not installed > > > import QtLocation 5.0 > > > " > > > > qt5-qtlocation includes only the C++ library. To use with QML you will > also need: > > > > qt5-qtdeclarative-import-location the QML import plugin > > > > and at least one geoservices plugin, either > qt5-qtlocation-plugin-geoservices-nokia or > qt5-qtlocation-plugin-geoservices-osm > Possibly something for the Mer/Nemo community to step up, but I'll mention it here. I'd recommend to add/include support for GPSd or simply serial NMEA too. That way it would be possible to hook up a bluetooth GPS (through USB-BT dongle) or a USB or RS232C GPS to the virtual machine and have a real, reasonably high accuracy, location stream available. Cheers Thomas
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