[Qt-creator] Usability Suggestions

[Pim Schellart]

Qt Creator is getting better by the minute. Thanks for all the hard  
work! I also have a suggestion for the search bar. Could it be  
possible to add a checkbox for case sensitive search? Full support for  
regular expressions would be the ultimate tool in quick search and  
replace.

Kind regards,

Pim Schellart

Op 26 nov 2008, om 11:06 heeft Daniel Teske het volgende geschreven:

>> Projects-View:
>> -  Since I switched from the alpha to the mentioned snapshot (which i
>>   know isn't the most recent) a lot of .prf files show up there. I
>>   can only guess from their contents what they do, but I don't know
>>   why they need to be shown there. The option in the new "Filter
>>   Tree" icon allows me to put them each in their own category,
>>   wouldn't it make more sense to have them all appear in one common
>>   category (or be able to just hide them)?
> They shouldn't be shown, they are just an implementation detail of  
> how qmake
> works, and not part of your project.
>
>
>> Code Completion:
>> -  When using the code completion to complete a class name the list
>>   starts with the capital CLASSNAME_H constand from the header, the
>>   class itself is always second. This is quite obviously a bit
>>   impractical ;)
> Yes, we noticed that already, we added macro completion, which we  
> want to
> keep. But obviously we need to fix that usability problem. We are  
> considering
> a few options.
>
>> -  When using code completion with a class an opening parenthesis is
>>   automatically added, quite often I need to use the :: operator
>>   though (for example when implementing functions in .cpp files).
> Yes, we are aware of that problem.
>
>> -  If the integrated help is focused ESC doesn't close it.
> That's by design, the first esc does only give focus back to the  
> editor. The
> output panes at the bottom, that is search results, and problems  
> list act the
> same. The idea behind that is that you might want to look up  
> something with
> F1, and start implementing while still having the help open for  
> reference.
>
> About the searching in the help, yes we want that to always search  
> whatever
> has focus.
>
>>
>> Integrated Search:
>> -  After pressing Ctrl-F the search bar pops up nicely placing the
>>   focus in it's 'Find:'-box. It would be nice if hitting ESC while
>>   the focus is somewhere on/in that bar would hide it again.
> While the Find bar is open, the search items are still highlighted.  
> So you can
> easily see all strings that match your search string. (And as above  
> most of
> the other views behave like that.)
>
> daniel
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