[Qt-creator] Feedback

[Thorbjørn Lindeijer]

ext Luke Luke wrote:
> First of all, I think that Qt Creator is excellent. I have pretty 
> limited experience with Qt, I have played with PyQt and Qt Jambi a 
> little bit. Qt Creator makes it very easy for someone to get up and 
> running with C++ Qt applications. I especially like that fact that it is 
> lean and doesn't try to do too much (although it certainly does a lot).
> 
> I apologize if any of these issues have already been mentioned.
> 
> 1. Make code completion case insensitive - The current behavior seems 
> kind of strange and inconsistent. I can provide more detail if needed.

The code completion currently treats uppercase characters as 
case-sensitive while lowercase characters are case-insensitive. In 
addition, the first character is always case-sensitive. I agree this 
behaviour might not be all that intuitive, it kind of grew as we 
struggled to make everybody happy. What other inconsistencies did you 
notice?

Maybe it should be case-insensitive all the way until you press an 
uppercase character, at which point it should be completely case-sensitive.

> 2. If using ctrl+arrow while inside string, do not select 
> opening/closing quotation mark.

I've fixed this in Qt, so it should come with our next release. :-)

> 4. Is there a keyboard shortcut to navigate to matching brace?

Not yet.

> 5. If I save a file while on a blank line cursor goes to col 1 even if 
> it had been indented before saving.

This is because by default it removes trailing whitespace on save for 
lines that you changed. You can disable this behaviour in the General 
C++ editor settings.

> Thanks for all of the great work on this software. I really think it 
> will help new Qt developers get going quickly.

Thanks. I think so too. :-)

Regards,
Bjørn

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Thorbjørn Lindeijer
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Software