QtCreator missing examples (no Qt version drop down)

[Ben Campbell-Wallis]

Hi

I've recently installed QtCreator 16 to utilise the bug fixes for viewing .rep files.
I'm unsure if this installation and my issue are related (just adding for info).

The issue I am facing is that the examples don't appear in the QtCreator 'examples' view:

This previously worked with my manually built from source Qt6.8.2 version.

Looking in the previous posts for this issue it points to incorrect installations but I don't see any specific for installing examples.

I've also checked the location as stated by other posts and I do have 2 folders under the Examples folder:

I was expecting at least these 2 options in the drop down.

The issue exists in both QtCreator 15 and 16 that I have installed.

Any ideas of areas I can check as to why they're not being picked up?

Thanks in advance.

[Ben Campbell-Wallis]

Update:

So this loss did 'seem' to occur after installing a later version of Qt using the maintenance tool.
As the Qt versions I installed didn't appear as auto detected - I used the 'Link with Qt' option which updated the kits section.
For reasons unknown I now have the example applications:

[ziller]

If your Qt 6.8.2 versions (the "manual" ones) are self-built (which the name suggests to me), then they are probably not set up for examples correctly. That requires building the documentation + "installing" the examples (see also https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-112135)

[Ben Campbell-Wallis]

@ziller - Thanks for the reply, correct when I built Qt from source there weren't any examples (as I didn't build the doumentation), but as I did use the online installer initially for Qt6.8.1 it added those examples in the correct place yet they were still not seen after what I believe I did, which was install the stand alone QtCreator 16.
It was at this point 'I think' the versions drop down for the examples disappeared, but I cannot be sure, hence posting).
After posting I then installed from the maintenance tool the latest Qt6.9.1 MSVC, yet still no examples, but also a hint was that those newly installed kits didn't appear in the auto detected list.
This was how I ended up seeing the 'Link to Qt' option which once done brought back all of what should of been the auto detected kits, and the examples for the versions installed by the maintenance tool.

What's not clear is why they disappeared (I'm assuming the QtCreator 16 install as a stand alone wiped a settings/configuration for QtCreator - I'm going to try and look deeper at that today as time permits.