Building and running an application

Now we have created a test application (TestApp1) in Qt Creator. To build and run the application we just need to click the play button (the green triangle).

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The Application Output window displays some messages about starting the simulator. It looks like the application is built in a separate folder called TestApp1-Build-Simulator-Simulator_Qt_for_MinGW_4_4__Qt_SDK__Debug under the TestApps folder (so this is parallel to our TestApp1 project folder). I think they call this shadow building. Quite nice actually as now the build products don’t clutter the source code folder (which could be under revision control).

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Next the Qt Simulator control panel opens and beside that the simulated N9 is running our test application. Excellent.

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Before proceeding with the application let’s check the control panel settings. I think there was some setting that we needed to change according to the release notes. Yes, it was the Application Platform, let’s change that from Symbian to Harmattan.

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In the Model section we can control the device orientation and size. The application seems to react to the orientation change in a proper manner. By clicking the button a “Hello world!” message is displayed. Great, looks like we have a working installation!

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