Created attachment 120274 [details] Screenshot of the window which appears when I try to load a saved file. The error message: The file does not appear to be a recognized cross stitch file. SUMMARY Save/load file in KXStitch is not working properly. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Save the file you are working on. 2. Try to load/open it. 3. The error window (see the attachment) appears. OBSERVED RESULT See the attachment. EXPECTED RESULT To be able to save and load files. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KXStitch 2.1.1
Thanks for reporting this, I can confirm that it is happening with me too. Oddly, the code that is failing hasn't changed in a while so I'm not sure on the cause at the moment. I am busy investigating, but can you confirm which KDE and Qt versions you are using. Regards
I have been doing some experimenting and tried the release-2.1.0 branch (v2.1.1) and the current master branch. OpenSuSE Leap 15.1, KDE 5.55.0, Qt 5.9.7 which works fine. OpenSuSE Leap 15.0, KDE 5.45.0, Qt 5.9.4 which works fine. OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, KDE 5.58.0, Qt 5.12.3 which does not work. It seems to be something got broken somewhere, although I haven't narrowed down what that is yet. If you can confirm which versions of KDE and Qt you have, that might help narrow it down. I will continue investigating. Regards
Git commit f9b52573043e91c69c377727fac6951e677a1e69 by Steve Allewell. Committed on 26/05/2019 at 16:24. Pushed by sallewell into branch 'release-2.2.0'. Fix file opening bug A change in KDE/Qt has resulted in a QTemporaryFile size() of 0 after KIO::copy_file overwrites it, previous versions show the size of the copied file. As such garbage was read instead of the file content. Fixed by closing the temporary file after opening it, reopening it using a QFile which then has the correct size. FIXED-IN: 2.2.0 M +39 -23 src/MainWindow.cpp https://commits.kde.org/kxstitch/f9b52573043e91c69c377727fac6951e677a1e69
So how to solve the problem as a regular user:
Your options are: 1. Downgrade KDE/QT to a version that worked. 2. Clone the release-2.2.0 branch and compile that yourself. 3. Wait for the release of the 2.2.0 version and propagation through whichever package manager you use. How do you normally get updates?
If you want to try compiling yourself. git clone --single-branch --branch release-2.2.0 git://anongit.kde.org/kxstitch run the build.sh script.