[Qt-creator] Issues with current git versions

[Thorbjørn Lindeijer]

ext Richard Moore wrote:
> - Right click behaviour in the help viewer is infuriating. Whenever
> you click on text it selects the word which prevents the back option
> from working.

Confirmed and still the case. It's also happening in the Qt Demo 
Browser, so it must be some QtWebKit issue.

> - the creator docs don't seem to load correctly if builddir !=
> sourcedir when you run creator. Note this refers to the dirs of the
> creator build, not the project being worked on.

Did you remember to run 'make docs'? They aren't included by default.

> - Output view seems to turn & into & which led me to falsely thing
> there was a QUrl problem.

Yep.

> - Crash due to a failed assertion when saving a text file:
>   ASSERT: "firstItem >= 0" in file text/qtextlayout.cpp, line 962

Here we'll really need some more information. Is it reproducable? What 
about running it in a debugger? I just saved a text file and it went fine.

> - Create a new class that is a subclass of QObject using the File >
> New... menu. The template used does not call the QObject() constructor
> and does not include the Q_OBJECT macro.

Yep, we should fix that.

> - Edit > Find/Replace > Replace All
>   This option does nothing until you've done a find earlier, so why is
> it enabled? I was aiming to do a global replace in the current buffer
> and expected it to pop me up a dialog.

We'll look into disabling them as appropriate.

> - make distclean leaves the debug, release and gdbmacro stuff lying
> around. It is also inaccessible through the build menu. Maybe there
> should be a dynamically created submenu that lists the various phony
> build targets?

Personally I don't mind doing that on the command line, so I'll leave 
this for other people to comment on. :-)

Regards,
Bjørn

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Thorbjørn Lindeijer
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Software