RE: Tester with MXE Windows 7 (or just Windows) and Qt 5.8 or greater

[JohnD]

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> From: JohnD [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 12:42 PM
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> Cc: 'Daniel J Sebald'
> Subject: Re: Tester with MXE Windows 7 (or just Windows) and Qt 5.8 or
> greater
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> > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:05:11 -0500
> > From: Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden>
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> > Subject: Tester with MXE Windows 7 (or just Windows) and Qt 5.8 or
> >     greater
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> > Is there someone using Windows 7 or the MXE equivalent as well as Qt
> > series 5.8 or higher?  If so, could you help confirm if there is a bug
> > in which the title bar of a floated QDockWidget (i.e., GUI subpanel) is
> > lost?  This would only involve compiling/running a development version
> > within the past few weeks and making observations.  The bug report is
> here:
> >
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54078
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
> >
> 
> 
> I submitted a patch to the tracker [1], that updates mxe-octave from 5.7.1
> to Qt 5.11.0, I haven't pushed it to mxe yet, as only just got it working
> for mxe octave 64 bit and not yet tested for anything else.
> 
> For it, using the current stable branch (as of this email), on my Windows
10
> machine, I see the title bars and dock buttons ok.  I was seeing the
missing
> dock buttons yesterday with the recent stable and Qt 5.7.1
> 
> I'll try a new build with the latest dev next.
> 
> 
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?9655


Actually I just realized it was the dev octave of a day or so ago, with Qt
5.7.1 that I have installed that is missing the dock buttons.

Will report back later when a new version of dev is compiled with Qt5.11