[Interest] CLion to replace QtCreator?

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 4 de abril de 2016 14:06:00 PDT Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > But I have to say I don't feel any unpleasantness. Qt Creator is the best
> > IDE
> > I've ever used. There are some things I'd do differently, but that's all.
> > I
> > also expect that's how most Qt developers and especially the Qt Creator
> > developers feel, so it's highly unlikely we'll do a complete change of
> > direction.
> 
> Without trying to offence, "you need to walk around the neighborhoods" a
> little. 

Why? It solves the problem for me for developing Qt, why should I spend time 
with other tools? Is there any other tool better for developing Qt? Note I 
don't care about developing anything else.

>    1. XML tags completion for known tags. This can be done for *.UI files,
>    and maybe some part of *.QS.  Basic XML structure is already know - so
> even for unknown XML variants - the IDE knows what tag to close.

Don't care, I don't edit XML files.

>    2. Class implementations - for example, I derive from an interface and
>    pressing control+enter on the type will add missing methods.

Isn't this there?

>    3. When I define an inline class (Java, but can be done using lambda
>    expressions in C++), just pressing control+enter will write the code for
>    me. For example:
> 
>    AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
>    builder.setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, new ___
> 
>    Pressing "control+enter" will create a new anonymous class which
> derives new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()

I have no idea what this is for.

>    4. When a method argument is an enum, code completion works on the
>    corresponding enum, and adds the needed type.

Sounds like a very useful feature.

>    5. Automatically know how to modify R"code" for example here:
>    ListView mListView = findViewById(R.id.notifications_list_view);
>    it will suggest to typecast to ListView (to fix - again, control+enter).

Sounds like a poor API in the first place.

>    6. While debugging the values of variables are displayed inside the text
>    editor, in light gray (no more looking for them in a panel).

You can do that by holding the Alt key and hovering over the variable, in 
Creator. But it sounds like a useful feature too.

>    7. When using connect, using Niko's example, I would like to type
>    connect(button, [clicked], this, [playTheFunkyMusic])
>    and QtCreator should automagically find the signals of button, and the
>    corresponding slots of "this". It used to work in ond style Qt4 signals,
>    but with modern connections, I need to type the whole type. Some signals
>    are hard to find, for example the "click()" signal from QButton comes
> from QAbstractButton. This means that when an object "has/provides" a
> signal, I need to guess the parent type which defined the signal in order
> connect it (I did not have to know this in Qt4).

Good idea too.

>    8. When I am lost "control+enter" usually fixe stuff for me.

That is very vague.

>    9. Multiple cursors (see the demo on SublimeText's home page - its epic,
>    and Atom badly implements it),

Explain. Sounds intriguing.

> Not saying that QtCreator is not good, but blindly claiming it's the best
> is not always true. Its even possible that some things are working in
> QtC4... I need to re-check at home. I should also open official feature
> requests and not complaining on a ML. I agree.

I never claimed it was the best IDE. I claimed it was the best IDE I had ever 
used.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center