Quick Patch not creating Uninstallation - patch

I am using Installshield 2008 Premier edition, I am able to build the Quick patch successfully, and I am doing the following settings Under Quick patch project IDE, In Installation Designer; under Patch Settings select General Information Next select Build Settings and at the right hand side pane select the first tab named as Common and in that check the checkbox option Patch Uninstallation Allow Patch to be Uninstalled(Requires Windows Installer 3.0)
After setting this option; where do I find this uninstallation option whether it will display in add/remove program or will it create a shortcut in the start up menu under already installed parent product?

There are different ways of uninstalling patches. They are listed at MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372104%28VS.85%29.aspx
About writting InstallScript - what exactly do you want to script in QuickPatch except patching files?

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JavaFX Projects gone?

I have been trying to find a place to download the plugin, allowing the creation of JavaFX projects, but without success.
I have installed the newest Java SDK8u65-windows-x64 but it doesn't support JavaFX Projects, or at least I couldn't figure how to create one!
Does anyone know if they have temporally taken the url's where we used to be able to download JavaFX plugins from, or is it only me, who can't find them on the Oracle website?
Thank you !
EDIT: The problem was, that I was using Eclipse Mars, which for some reason doesn't allow to auto import JavaFx, as it has some odd access restrictions on the JRE system library. How I solved it was I installed the e(fx)clipse plugin and I was able to import javafx components successfully after that!
You can develop JavaFx straight away if you are using intellij Idea and perhaps some other ides
But if you are using eclipse, you should install the e(fx)clipse for your version.
Try this link
Also if you have more than one JDKs on your system, try to use jdk 8 an the default
Right click your project > properties
Then elect “Java Build Path” on left, then “JRE System Library”, click Edit…
Select "Workspace Default JRE"
Click "Installed JREs"
Check out the list and select jdk 8....
If you don't see it, click Search…, navigate to your jdk8 path, then click OK
Now you should see all installed JREs, select the one you want
Click OK

QT with debugger

I am new to QT
I downloaded online installer for QT windows in the location
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads
I just tried simple program like printin hello world.
I Could execute the program. But I am not able to debug it.
I am getting errors like
None of the debugger engines 'Cdb engine, Gdb engine' capable of
debugging binaries of the type 'x86-windows-msvc2008-pe-32bit' is
configured correctly.
Should I download a different version for debugging or Did I miss any procedure to include debuging facility?. Please help me to install QT with debugger.
Do you have Visual Studio installed?
You need to have it installed so you can use this engines to debug.
Here is the link for the Visual studio: LINK
Enjoy!
I had the same problem with QtCreator. An Update of the QtSDK solved it for me. You find the update mechanism in a menu of QtCreator.
Go to Tools -> Options -> Tool Chains, and tell us what you see. I have only ever used Qt with mingw, not Visual Studio, so I don't know if it will help, but look at this question and its resolution.
It looks like there was a bug in QtSDK installer at some point. Firstly, try updating. Secondly, try this:
open Qt Creator and go to Tools → Options... → Build & Run, select Tool Chains tab;
there should be Auto-detected list, select in there Mingw as GCC for Windows targets and click Clone button;
Now select cloned tool chain, you should be able edit specific fields in the bottom;
Click Browse... right to Debugger field and select %QTDIR%\pythongdb\python_2.7based\gdb-i686-pc-mingw32.exe;
Save your edits, create a new project (don't forget to select cloned tool chain) and try debugging.
Does it work?

How do you set file-specific build settings in XCode 4?

In xcode 3 it was possible to configure specific option for building every single file of a project, like for example disabling specific warnings, thumb code generation and so on.
In xcode 4 such feature is not available, or at least not in an intuitive way. This is however supported, at least as a backward compatibility feature, in projects imported from xcode 3.x.
Does anyone knows a way to specify those settings without having to open the project back in older xcode or creating a project for every single file?
Select the project in the navigator, then select the target from the list. Select the Build Phases tab, then expand the Compile Sources phase. The Compiler Flags column is where you specify per-file compiler flags.

How can I build for release/distribution on the Xcode 4?

Build for debug is just press on the PLAY symbol, but I don't know how to Build for distribution/release?
The short answer is:
choose the iOS scheme from the
drop-down near the run button from
the menu bar
choose product > archive in the
window that pops-up
click 'validate'
upon successful validation, click
'submit'
You can use command line tool to build the release version. Next to your project folder, i.e.
$ ls
...
Foo.xcodeproj
...
Type the following build command:
$ xcodebuild -configuration Release
The "play" button is specifically for build and run (or test or profile, etc). The Archive action is intended to build for release and to generate an archive that is suitable for submission to the app store. If you want to skip that, you can choose Product > Build For > Archive to force the release build without actually archiving. To find the built product, expand the Products group in the Project navigator, right-click the product and choose to show in Finder.
That said, you can click and hold the play button for a menu of other build actions (including Build and Archive).
XCode>Product>Schemes>Edit Schemes>Run>Build Configuration
They've bundled all the target/build configuration/debugging options stuff into "schemes". The transition guide has a good explanation.
I have a large app that was having problems uploading to the AppStore using the archive method you will find in XCode 4. The activity indicator kept spinning for hours whether I was trying to validate or distribute, so I created a support ticket to Apple. During that process, I found out you could right click on the .app in your Products folder inside the Project Navigator of XCode, and compress the app to submit using the Application Loader 2.5.1. (aka the old method). Only the Debug - iphoneos folder is accessible this way (for now) and once Apple responded, this is what they had to say:
I'm glad to hear that Application Loader has provided you a viable workaround. Discussing this situation internally, we're not sure that submitting the Debug build will pose too much of a problem (so long as it was signed with the App Store distribution profile, as you mentioned it was). The app will likely be slower as the debug switches are turned on and optimizations are turned off for the Debug configuration, though it will still run. App Review will ultimately determine whether or not that's ok, as I'm not sure that's something they check for. You could try reaching out directly to App Review to confirm this, if you wish. However, since App Loader is working for you, I do recommend rebuilding the app with your Release configuration and resubmitting to play it safe. To find your Release build in Xcode 4.x, control-click on the Application Archive on the Archives tab in the organizer, and choose "Show in Finder." Then, control-click on the .xcarchive file in Finder and choose "Show Package Contents." The release built .app file should be located within the /Products/Applications folder.
This was very helpful information for developers who are having problems with the archive method, and my app is now uploading successfully without any concern that it won't run to the best of it's ability.
To set the build configuration to Debug or Release, choose 'Edit Scheme' from the 'Product' menu.
Then you see a clear choice.
The Apple Transition Guide mentions a button at the top left of the Xcode screen, but I cannot see it in Xcode 4.3.
That part is now located under Schemes. If you edit your schemes you will see that you can set the debug/release/adhoc/distribution build config for each scheme.
Product -> Archive, later, press the distribute button and check the option Export as Application or what you want

How to select debug/release mode in Xcode4? [duplicate]

Build for debug is just press on the PLAY symbol, but I don't know how to Build for distribution/release?
The short answer is:
choose the iOS scheme from the
drop-down near the run button from
the menu bar
choose product > archive in the
window that pops-up
click 'validate'
upon successful validation, click
'submit'
You can use command line tool to build the release version. Next to your project folder, i.e.
$ ls
...
Foo.xcodeproj
...
Type the following build command:
$ xcodebuild -configuration Release
The "play" button is specifically for build and run (or test or profile, etc). The Archive action is intended to build for release and to generate an archive that is suitable for submission to the app store. If you want to skip that, you can choose Product > Build For > Archive to force the release build without actually archiving. To find the built product, expand the Products group in the Project navigator, right-click the product and choose to show in Finder.
That said, you can click and hold the play button for a menu of other build actions (including Build and Archive).
XCode>Product>Schemes>Edit Schemes>Run>Build Configuration
They've bundled all the target/build configuration/debugging options stuff into "schemes". The transition guide has a good explanation.
I have a large app that was having problems uploading to the AppStore using the archive method you will find in XCode 4. The activity indicator kept spinning for hours whether I was trying to validate or distribute, so I created a support ticket to Apple. During that process, I found out you could right click on the .app in your Products folder inside the Project Navigator of XCode, and compress the app to submit using the Application Loader 2.5.1. (aka the old method). Only the Debug - iphoneos folder is accessible this way (for now) and once Apple responded, this is what they had to say:
I'm glad to hear that Application Loader has provided you a viable workaround. Discussing this situation internally, we're not sure that submitting the Debug build will pose too much of a problem (so long as it was signed with the App Store distribution profile, as you mentioned it was). The app will likely be slower as the debug switches are turned on and optimizations are turned off for the Debug configuration, though it will still run. App Review will ultimately determine whether or not that's ok, as I'm not sure that's something they check for. You could try reaching out directly to App Review to confirm this, if you wish. However, since App Loader is working for you, I do recommend rebuilding the app with your Release configuration and resubmitting to play it safe. To find your Release build in Xcode 4.x, control-click on the Application Archive on the Archives tab in the organizer, and choose "Show in Finder." Then, control-click on the .xcarchive file in Finder and choose "Show Package Contents." The release built .app file should be located within the /Products/Applications folder.
This was very helpful information for developers who are having problems with the archive method, and my app is now uploading successfully without any concern that it won't run to the best of it's ability.
To set the build configuration to Debug or Release, choose 'Edit Scheme' from the 'Product' menu.
Then you see a clear choice.
The Apple Transition Guide mentions a button at the top left of the Xcode screen, but I cannot see it in Xcode 4.3.
That part is now located under Schemes. If you edit your schemes you will see that you can set the debug/release/adhoc/distribution build config for each scheme.
Product -> Archive, later, press the distribute button and check the option Export as Application or what you want

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