[Qt-creator] Qt Creator comments

[Sam Dutton]

Qt Creator gets better and better -- I really like it. Thank you to all
involved.

Random feature requests and suggestions below. Some of these are covered
elsewhere.

Cheers

Sam

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Find and replace
- Like many other people, I'd like a simple Find & Replace with scoping
(selected text, file patterns, whole project). Macromedia HomeSite has a
particularly good one -- one of the best features is its multi-line find
and replace fields. This, obviously, makes multi-line Find and Find &
Replace very easy, with no need to use regular expressions. It would
also be great to have a checkbox for not searching in comments, i.e. not
searching in commented-out code -- this is irritating to have to do with
regular expressions.

Application-still-running errors
- If you forget to close a running application, or it crashes, and then
you tweak your code and run again, Build Issues gives this rather
obscure :) message: "collect2: ld returned 1 exit status". Is there some
way to issue a confirmation to quit the running application if it's been
left running or crashed?

S60 
- integration (compiler and emulator) would be great.

Options
- tabbed document layout (please :)!)
- clear-application-output (and the build progress bar) on build
- display Compile Output when building

Indentation
- when you add a public/protected/private declaration, or add a line of
code in an otherwise blank method, indentation isn't automatic (as it is
in Visual Studio, for example), which means you always have to tidy up
the indentation after typing
- it should be possible to do all indentation automatically.

Project pane
- tree view to view of classes and functions would be very useful

Debug
- Remove All Breakpoints function -- likewise for bookmarks
- the splitter position above the Debug pane doesn't seem right: it
should be at the top of the dark grey bar, not below it
- facility to restart debugging: close output window, rebuild and
restart

Help and documentation
- it would be great in the code editor if you could go to documentation
for a class or method, with a context menu (right click) item, or with
option-double-click like in Xcode

Object::objectName(): 'This property holds the name of this object.' I
just remembered -- when I first learned Qt, this was confusing. Might be
worth adding something like: 'Note that this returns a name if it has
been assigned to the object with setObjectName(), not the name of the
class of the object.'

Tiny bug: when I clear the application output, there's a one-pixel-high
worth remains at the top until the Application Output window is
refreshed. Also, the tab is pale grey, whereas the rest of the tab is
white, which looks wrong.


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