[Qt-creator] qt-creator based ide

[Liam Staskawicz]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> 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.

Great - I'll take my first stab basically using the plugins directly  
as libraries then.  Thanks for the quick response.

Liam