I’m back to Qt again. This time prompted by my need for a simple application that will help me learn Chinese that I wanted to write for my cellphone. I have a Nokia N79 and I tried to venture into this adventure last year, but was put off by the S60 SDK and its flavor of ‘limited C++’. However, the announcement by Nokia of their plans to support Qt as the default application development framework for their mobile devices and plans to ship the runtime with the OS has re-kindled my interest in the framework.
Anyway, this is the issue. While installing the Beta Qt SDK, it fails to create the start menu shortcuts. The screenshot of the error is shown below.
This may very well be because of my peculiar environment. I’m running Vista on VMWare Fusion running on a Mac. For the first couple of shortcuts, I kept trying Retry to no avail. The Nokia Qt SDK – beta release and the Symbian subfolder are created correctly though.
When I got the error again, I tried this. I created the shortcuts manually (same name as what is being displayed in the error message) from Windows and then tried the Retry option. And it worked just fine. I have posted a comment to a Nokia developer’s blog about this, let’s hope that it’ll get propagated to the right department.