[Qt-creator] QtCreator vs QDevelop Features?

[Sebastian Fischer]

Hi,

on Friday, November 21st 2008 at 10:45 you wrote:
>> VS> I like a lot of the features of QDevelop, particularly its  
>> source code
>> VS> editor. I do not claim that QtCreator has a less capable code  
>> editor (on
>> VS> the contrary), but I miss the option of opening multiple tabs  
>> containing
>> VS> different source files without having to switch between them.  
>> Although
>> VS> relatively trivial, once you opened the source files the tabs  
>> option
>> VS> allows for quicker switching between them, without having to  
>> click on
>> VS> and scan a pull down menu to select the source file you intend  
>> to work on.
>>
>> Oh nice timing, was about to write something similar about that :)
>> In my case I'm mostly used to visual studio (eclipse with plugin for
>> Qt development so far) and both actually show you tabs for files that
>> are open (as is common today).

EZ> Well, "common" depends a lot on the platform, e.g. Xcode (which is  
EZ> quite common on the Mac) doesn't use Tabs :)

The general trend seems to be to have Tabs nowadays for open documents
(like many browsers have), but it's not

EZ> Btw, if you really want a "on one glance" view of all your open  
EZ> documents, I can point you to the "Open Documents" view: You can split
EZ> the "Projects" view in the left-hand sidebar, and then select the open
EZ> documents view in the appearing second view.

Yea  that  actually  does  help  quite  a bit, hadn't stumbled on that
yet...  unfortunately  it  doesn't  allow  one  to reorder them (or do
anything  else  useful  apart  from  switching  to an open document by
double clicking or closing it via context menu). The order seems to be
arbitrary  (order  in which the files were opened). Trying to drag one
just starts selecting multiple, if I could order them there that would
be great :D Especially if there was an option somewhere that a
so-defined order is used by Ctrl-Tab. I already see the current
document highlighted. Actually that would be even better than having
tabs (since a vertical display makes much more sense space wise for
potentially long filenames compared to a horizontal display).

In any way, thanks for an already great IDE!
Sebastian