[Qt-creator] qt-creator based ide

[Liam Staskawicz]

I've been enjoying the development of QtCreator and it has definitely  
turned into an amazing tool.

I have an existing Qt-based project which is basically a lightweight  
make-wrapper IDE for an embedded target with C/C++ source code.  I'd  
love to adapt some of the QtCreator functionality for this project and  
am just starting to sift through the codebase.  Is there any general  
info / comments / doc that might assist in getting oriented for such a  
project?  The fact that most functionality is plugin-based seems like  
it would make this feasible, but at first glance it's not immediately  
clear whether I need to provide my own plugin handling interface,  
mimic what's in QtCreator, or exactly what the right approach might  
be.  Please excuse my slightly under-researched question - I just  
figured that if I could get any pointers on where to begin it might  
make the search much shorter.

Any general advice / overview info would be greatly appreciated.   
Thanks!

Liam