[Qt-creator] Feedback

[Greg Santucci]

Qt Creator is excellent. When I use it, I get the impression that it was designed thoughtfully to have exactly the kinds of features you want when working on a Qt project, and nothing superfluous or distracting.

The navigation feature is especially innovative and helpful.

I especially like the way the project settings are presented in Qt Creator. Qt Creator takes care of the tedious bits, and lets you edit things that make sense to edit, such as the environment variables that are set when building the project. One odd thing: When you create a new project, both the "debug" and "release" configurations have the word "debug" as a Make argument, causing the release version to not get built. I can change this manually and it works fine from then on.

The very first thing I tested when I installed Qt Creator was the debugging facility. Through no fault of Qt Creator, the weird behaviour of MingW gdb let it down a little. For example, the "interrupt" feature doesn't work. Qt Creator seems to hang for a bit, then disconnect from the app its debugging. I've seen the same problem with MingW gdb in non-Qt projects as well.

The integration of the Qt Designer is flawless. Overall, Qt Creator presents all the best aspects and features of Qt API in a beautiful, friendly, immediately useful way.

Thank you very much for this excellent tool.