Embedding Acrobat Reader or Excel

[dachick]

Hi guys,

I read about ActiveQt being able to embed the native windows acrobat reader or excel into a Qt widget.

But as ActiveQt is only available in commercial versions I'm looking for another way to solve this task.

I would appreciate if you can give me any hints :).

Best Regards!

[stampede]

But as ActiveQt is only available in commercial versions
it's not, look at Qt 4.7 docs (http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/activeqt.html):

The ActiveQt modules are part of the Qt Commercial Edition and the Open Source Versions of Qt.

[dachick]

oh I must have had a look at an older version. There it was commercial only.

Thanks :)

[dachick]

Sorry to bother again, but I'm still facing some problems.

I followed the instructions on http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/activeqt.html#activeqt-framework in order to build the libraries and integrate the axcontainer into the designer. But its not appearing in the designer.

I can use the QAxObject in source code, e.g., to open an excel sheet, what compiles and runs just fine.

I use the latest Qt_2010.05 SDK with mingw. Is there anything else to consider?!

best regards

[dachick]

I finally found the way to get QAxWidget into the designer.
In case anybody else is interested I post the solution here.

Open the file plugins.pro in the QTDIR\tools\designer\src\plugins folder.

And replace


win32:!contains(QT_EDITION, OpenSource):SUBDIRS += activeqt

with

win32: SUBDIRS += activeqt

This seems to be fixed in the git sources ( see: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qaxwidget-opensource-fix) but is not yet included in the distributed versions.

regards