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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been running the Debian/ubuntu install of mcstas fine using 22.04.5 with the windows subsystem for linux.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Everything works very smoothly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, if I install under the newer ubuntu 24.04.1 from a completely clean system a qt error occurs that prevents popup windows from the insert menu being opened by the main application.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Traceback (most recent call last):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/share/mcstas/tools/Python/mcgui/viewclasses.py", line 404, in handle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> self.cb(self.comp_parser)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/share/mcstas/tools/Python/mcgui/viewclasses.py", line 463, in __handleComponentClicked<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> dlg = McInsertComponentDialog()<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/share/mcstas/tools/Python/mcgui/viewclasses.py", line 912, in __init__<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> self.ui.setupUi(self)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/share/mcstas/tools/Python/mcgui/widgets.py", line 737, in setupUi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> self.edtAtRel.setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.LeftToRight)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve tried this on a couple of different PCs and see the same error.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Removing the lines with setLayoutDirection(QtCore.Qt.LeftToRight) from widgets.py and relying on the default layout seems to work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Presumably the change to qt6 has caused a problem but I’ve not been able to figure out what the change is.<o:p></o:p></p>
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