[Qt-creator] feature request

Adam Higerd ahigerd at timeips.com
Wed Feb 11 16:35:33 CET 2009


Boy Lenssen wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve been using Qt Creator on a smaller project I had to do aside. But 
> now I’m back working on our main project, I tend to go back to my 
> previous IDE, which I’d rather not do, as I prefer using Qt Creator as 
> my default IDE.
> 
>  
> 
> But as our  project is pretty big, it makes my life easier when I know 
> where certain functions are referenced / declared in an eye blink. 
> Source insight has this feature (and as I saw at a college, a KDevelop 
> Beta version also has this now).
> 
>  
> 
> When putting the cursor on a function, the IDE searches for its 
> definition and shows this in a separate window and also searches for 
> references to this function and shows this in a tree in another window.
> 
>  
> 
> Because a picture says more than these words, I supplied a nice picture 
> (again, with my enormous MSPaint skills) …


Qt Creator doesn't have an interface that looks like that but there IS a 
keyboard shortcut, as well as an option in the right-click menu, to jump 
between the declaration and definition of a symbol.

/s/ Adam





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