Question

I have compiled Qt Statically and I have used it to compile my application. My exe runs anywhere but it only shows something if there is a qml/Raker/images folder in the same directory as my exe but I want the image to be included in my exe. In qml I access the image through “images/layer_0.png”(This is only one out of 20). I have read something about a resource file but I can’t completely understand it. I’m sure how to do this If any of you could just help. I also want to know if Qt Creator has some built in way of doing this.

Answer 1

Yes, this can be done and it is built into Qt. The steps are as follows:

1. In Qt Creator, right click on your project, choose “add new”, select Qt Resource File chose a name and location
2. Double click on file to open it in the resource editor
3. Click on Add->Add Prefix to add the prefix to the file
4. Click on Add->Add File to add each of your image files
5. To access files using the QResources Scheme, prefix them with “:/” as in “:/images/icon.png”

Alternatively to quickly “convert” all relative image paths to be accessed as resources, use the QResources scheme to set your view source in qml:
view.setSource(QUrl("qrc:/main.qml"));

For more information have a look at:

• How to use Resource Editor with Qt Creator
• managing resource files with the qt resource system