Tool to check and clean out project's QRC files and resource directories (during refactoring/code cleanups).
The tool checks for the following situations:
- resource/pixmap is referenced in qrc and correctly used in the source code
- source code contains invalid qrc-path (not detected at compile time, and difficult to find through testing)
- resource/pixmap is referenced in qrc but nowhere used (i.e. unused and could be deleted)
- resource/pixmap is in directory structure but not (yet) referenced in qrc (i.e. unused and could be deleted)
and provides some automatic functionality for cleaning out qrc files and resource directories.
- select a base directory of your source code, usually the top-level directory that contains both source code files, ui-files, the qrc-file(s) and the images
- select the qrc-file(s) to scan
- select image types or other resource file types (you can enter a semi-colon separated list of custom wildcards, like
*.txt;*.md) - click on Scan QRC and directory structure
The table will now be populated with a colored list of scan results:
- magenta : files that appear in the qrc but are no-where used in the code
- blue : files that are in the directory structure, but not referenced in qrc
- red : files that are referenced via QRC-path in the source code/ui-files, but are not anywhere in the qrc; these are the real bad guys to fix!
This is a simple tool with only very basic error checking. It relies on the following conventions/expectations:
- qrc-references in cpp/ui are not broken across lines; references in cpp and ui must be tightly enclosed in xml-tags, no spaces are allowed:
...>:/path/to/image.png<...and...":/path/to/image.png"... - the tool cannot identify commented-out code or #ifdef'd code blocks
- many other things may not work... but alas, you got the code and if you need to fix anything, go ahead :-)
See also the QrcChecker script https://github.com/miurahr/qrcchecker, that generates a QRC file based on the contents of a directory tree.