[Qt-creator] QT Creator feedback, minor bug reports

[Charles N Burns]

Background: I was most annoyed at the difficulty of getting the OSS version
of QT working in MS Visual C++. I strongly dislike DevC++ and while I find
KDevelop "okay" to work with, it's really only useful in Unix.I converted a
KDevelop project to QT Creator last night, and have made fast progress since
then. QT Creator is great! I love how it has intelligent defaults, it's
fast, it highlights code associated with currently selected curly braces,
and how its auto-complete adds the appropriate parentheses and changes
between
 "->" and "." intelligently. This editor alone has saved me several hours
just yesterday vs. using Kdevelop, and it took only a few seconds to import
the project because of its use of ".pro" files as the project file. This
editor is so good that I will probably be using QT for all my Open Source
projects just so I can use QT Creator. I may be switching from Visual C++
(my current favorite editor, and I've used them all) if QT Creator works
with non-QT code.

A few minor bug reports:
1) When double-clicking on text, quotation marks are included in the
highlighted text. This is fairly strange and I'm pretty sure isn't what most
people want.
For example, take the following line of code:
#include "controller.h"

If I double-click in the word "controller", the word is highlighted, but so
is the quotation mark on the left (but not the right, since it stops on the
period).

2) While building, there is a green box on the left pane which shows the
current progress. The bottom part of this box looks truncated on my system
(Vista Enterprise AMD64)

3) Does not seem to recognize many non-Trolltech standard libraries, like
math.h and iostream. It underlines these and says "No such file or
directory" on mouseover (even though the libraries do exist and have a
world-readable header file).



When I downloaded QT Creator, I wasn't expecting more than an extension of a
QT text widget with some buttons for compiling/running programs, but it's
intelligence-by-default and "just work" philosophy are a jarringly pleasant
surprise. Thanks for all your work, guys. I've been developing software for
ten years, but this is the first time I've been inspired to take the time to
give my compliments to the authors (especially of an IDE)!

--Charles Burns

-- 
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind." --Dr. Seuss
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