[Qt-creator] Some initial feedback

Richard Moore richmoore44 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 18:46:22 CET 2008


Here's some initial feedback based on playing with the IDE some more
(I've been using it to mess around with the arora codebase, which
imported and built in creator without any problems at all). Note that
I've updated the comments based on the responses Matthias gave on the
dot, and added a couple more things I've noticed as I use it more.

- Missing tooltips on the buttons in the sidebar, initially they don't
seem to do anything but aren't greyed out. It turns out that there are
tooltips, but they weren't visible initially presumably because the
buttons weren't enabled.

- Project names with spaces in seem to cause problems. I know this is
qmake's fault, but I'd suggest ensuring people can't enter spaces in
project names if it's known to cause a problem.

- opening a file in the editor, i seem to have an empty drop down to
the right on the one listing the open files. After more work with the
tool I can see that this becomes a method list once there's some code
there.

- Switch between method declaration/definition is enabled even when
you didn't click on a method.

- Setting for the default editor are not inherited by the C++ editor
(eg. setting it to visualise whitespace).

- Can't right click on class name and get to the docs.

- Can't print a selection.

- Switching between build types has radio behaviour but displays as
checkbox items in the build settings view.

- No project editor, you just end up editing the .pro file in a text
edit field in the IDE. (eg. if you want to add a module to the
project). Matthias has commented that this is by design, Leo S
suggested on the dot using very agressive code completion instead
which would be sufficient to help me out here.

- The Output view is rather weak, for example you can't search it.

- The code folding won't fold comments. This is a PITA for files with
long copright headers at the start, ideally I should be able to make
it fold these by default so I can see the code as soon as I open a
file.

- No way I can see to specify a template for newly created files.

- I can't see how to set a default path for new projects.

Overall, quite pleasant to use so far.

Cheers

Rich.



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