for qt for symbian project , how to let qmake not generate rss file

[tanglaoya]

when build qt for symbian projet ,it will generate **.rss and **_reg.rss files by default . and each time i run qmake it will generate these 2 files again which would cover my edits before.

now what i want is let qmake not generate rss files ,

Env: qt 4.7.1

[divanov]

You are supposed to use RSS_RULES in project file instead of manual editing .rss file.
http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/qmak...html#rss-rules

[tanglaoya]

RSS_RULES only have effect in **_reg.rss, but not in **.rss .

[danhicksbyron]

Write-protect the file.

[tanglaoya]

sorry ,but idon't understand what does write-protect mean , do you mean let rss files to be write-protected so qmake cannot rewrite these rss files. this is a way when there is no way.

[ltomuta]

This was discussed before and the conclusion was that it is indeed not possible to customize the RSS file through the *.pro file or to otherwise skip it from being regenerated. So the write protect hack may indeed be the last thing to try.

But, the real problem is: why do you need the RSS file? What API you use which requires a resource and is there no alternative way to implement the desired functionality using Qt specific APIs (thus without RSS files) ? If there is no other way to solve this, create a bug report / suggestion at bugreports.qt.nokia.com and ask either for the RSS rules to be extended or some relevant Qt APIs be created.

[danhicksbyron]

This has been a known problem for a long time (ie, over a year) -- if you want to modify certain icon or title details you need to muck with the .rss. And it's been known for a long time that there's no good way to do this in a vanilla Qt development environment.

[tamhanna]

This was discussed before and the conclusion was that it is indeed not possible to customize the RSS file through the *.pro file or to otherwise skip it from being regenerated. So the write protect hack may indeed be the last thing to try.

But, the real problem is: why do you need the RSS file? What API you use which requires a resource and is there no alternative way to implement the desired functionality using Qt specific APIs (thus without RSS files) ? If there is no other way to solve this, create a bug report / suggestion at bugreports.qt.nokia.com and ask either for the RSS rules to be extended or some relevant Qt APIs be created.

A bitmap icon, my dear Luciano. A bitmap icon

(am so pissed bc I just had to recompile my app 6 times and reupload 6 times also bc of that....)