[Interest] Adding editable files to VS2013 project via .pro and qmake

[Tony Rietwyk]

Answering my own question! 

I stumbled upon an article that mentioned OTHER_FILES and DISTFILES.
OTHER_FILES didn't work, but DISTFILES does quite nicely.  The files appear
in their own group Distribution Files in the VS Solution Explorer, and don't
affect the output of the build.  Most importantly, the editor remembers the
files even after regenerating the project, and the DPACK editor extension
allows me to quickly select the files to open using Alt-U.  

Yay! 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+tony=rightsoft.com.au at qt-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Tony Rietwyk
> Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:07 PM
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Interest] Adding editable files to VS2013 project via .pro and
qmake
> 
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> I am using Qt5.5.1 and qmake to generate a project for Visual Studio 2013.
> I would like to add some text files to those shown in the Solution
Explorer so
> that I can edit them.  They are not required for building, nor for
deployment.
> 
> I tried adding a file in VS, and then diff'ing to the generated version.
> Only one extra tag is included in the project file:
> 
>   <ItemGroup>
>     <None Include="relative_path_to_the_file_I_added" />
>   </ItemGroup>
> 
> I can manually insert this section into the .vcxproj file after I run
qmake.
> Browsing the Qt sources, I can see this tag can be written in
> msbuild_objectmodel.cpp on line 2039.  But I can't trace back through
callers
> to see how to execute that statement.
> 
> Is there a syntax for my .pro to include these additional files?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
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