[Qt-creator] qt-creator based ide

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:13:44AM -0800, Liam Staskawicz wrote:
> 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.

You do not necessarily need to provide a plugin-based interface.  In
some cases a plugin's main body of code is pretty independent of the
plugin structure (there is e.g. a "standalone fakevim 'application'" in
tests/manual/fakevim, and there used to be stand-alone test versions of
texteditor and the debugger), in other cases such a split should be
fairly easy to achieve by shifting around code a bit. 

Andre'