include qt_menu.nib file in MacOS app bundle

[stevengj]

I have been trying to get PyPlot working with Anaconda's Python distribution, and am running into

Qt internal error: qt_menu.nib could not be loaded. The .nib file should be placed in QtGui.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/  or in the resources directory of your application bundle.

I've been searching, and so far I can't find any clean way to work around this other than to copy the qt_menu.nib directory into the Resources directory of the application bundle.

It's incredibly annoying, but I wonder if it would be okay to just ship this in the Julia MacOS download? It's only 16kB, and this seems like it may affect any Qt-based libraries.

[Keno]

Is this a Qt bug or a problem with the Anaconda distribution?

[stevengj]

It looks like this is a bug in Anaconda. Should try to figure something else out.

[ihnorton]

@stevengj are you sure IPython is running with the python inside of anaconda's python.app? (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17824693/pyqtgraph-with-anaconda-python-on-mac-gives-nib-error)

[stevengj]

@ihnorton, the problem is that we are running from within the julia executable, linking libpython as a shared library, not from a python executable. So, the fact that Anaconda has a python.app with the appropriate Resources/qt_menu.nib directory is utterly useless.

We need to have Qt properly installed as a framework with the QtGui.framework/Versions/Current/Resources directory set up correctly.

[stevengj]

I've posted a query on the Anaconda mailing list about this.

[ihnorton]

Here's another possible stopgap: run julia as a symlink from within the anaconda directory.

(PWD == ~/julia)
# ./julia
julia> using PyPlot
julia> plot(1:10)
[crashes]

# ln -s /Applications/anaconda/python.app/Contents/MacOS/julia ~/julia/julia
# /Applications/anaconda/python.app/Contents/MacOS/julia
julia> using PyPlot
julia> plot(1:10)
[plot is displayed properly]

[stevengj]

That's a great (albeit evil) hack, thanks for the suggestion!