Originally posted by smitty3268
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#1: Your Qt Library must be built with support for the platform(s) which you want to use (it needs header files); and then
#2 The underlying libraries must also be present on your system, if you request that platform to be used.
XCB is not "a step on the way towards Wayland"; both are endpoints. It just happens that XCB will be finished quicker. (Because it's an easier job to do, and because the Wayland software stack is still moving forward quickly.)
Here's examples: If you build the widget-based example 'qtbase/examples/widgets/widgets/mousebuttons/mousebuttons.pro', the resulitng "buttontester" program can be run in the following ways:
$ ./buttontester (on my Linux platform, this defaults to using the XCB plugin.) or;
$ wayland-compositor & (i.e., get that going)
$ ./buttontester -platform wayland
Or, if your screen is already under the control of DirectFB -
$ ./buttontester -platform directfb
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You don't make a single change in the program code, and you don't even have to re-link it. Just fire up the Platform, and Qt's library (if built with that Platform) will do the connection and platform-specific function invocations for you.
Same program binary. BTW, I wrote that example, and used it to test mouse buttons on those 3 platforms - in exactly this way.
BTW, Qt 5.0 (and higher) support up to 31 unique buttons on a mouse! (That's for BOTH widgets and QML MouseArea elements- you will find a nearly identical example, using QML, in "qtdeclarative/examples/quick/mousearea"). And whle X11 mouse events present the State of only Left+Right+Middle (and Wheel-up + Wheel-down, which are useless in a "Button State" context) -- Qt 5.0 Mouse Events present the State of every mouse button on your entire device, all the time. So, the notion of "held button 7, while clicking button 10" invoking a different GUI Action than "click button 10" (by itself) finally becomes possible in a C++ toolkit.
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