[Qt-creator] some more suggestions (and a few compliments)

Nathan Carter nathancarter5 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 20:45:05 CET 2008


Thank you again for the work on Qt Creator.  Here are a few comments  
as you continue your work.

Boy, having the debugger built in made it a heck of a lot easier to  
find my static initialization dependency bug.  Sooo much easier than  
breaking out gdb by hand.  Thanks!

Why does the File menu only give me the option to unload one project?   
How does it figure out which one I want to unload?  It should be a  
submenu.  (I eventually figured out that I can do it from the context  
menu.  But my first instinct was to look under File.)

Feature request:  A filter on what files show up in the sidebar.   
Right now all project files show up, which may include a ton of source  
files imported from subprojects written by other people.  Although  
they're technically part of my project as far as "make" is concerned,  
they're not something I'll ever double-click to edit.  I might want to  
see what's in them if the debugger takes me there on a crash, of  
course, but if it's not my code to maintain, I don't really have any  
need to see its filename; I'll never click it.  So for instance, I  
might exclude all files of the form FooLib*.{h,cpp}, or all files  
whose full paths don't contain /Users/nathan/Development/ or something  
like that.
Or perhaps you could just give me a hierarchical structure over there  
that exposes the hierarchy implied by my include(........pri)  
statements?  That would be the bomb, because of course that shows me  
exactly how the projects actually are organized, which is how I think  
of it, because I'm the one who created that organization.

Hotkeys that do code collapsing and uncollapsing (left column's + and  
- in editor).

When in debug mode, and the program does something bad that switches  
control back to the debugger, it doesn't tell me what it was.  Seg  
fault?  Bus error?  Kernel protection failure?  Breakpoint?  I'm  
trying to fix an error and I don't even know what it is.

Oh, and I'll tell you one other thing.  I was working on my project  
today from the command line plus vi, out of years of habit, and  
eventually I realized that what I was doing would take much less time  
if I booted up Qt Creator and did it there.  So I did. :)  You're  
beating my habits!

Nathan




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