[Qt-creator] First impressions

[Lucian Smith]

* Thorbjørn Lindeijer <thorbjorn.lindeijer at nokia.com> [2009-06-08 11:03] writes:
> ext Lucian Smith wrote:
> > -Can autocomplete be made resistent to backspace?  If I type 'setN' and 
> > there's no function that starts 'setN', if I type backspace, it would be 
> > nice to see the 'setX' functions again.  As it is, I have to backspace 
> > over the entire word minus one character, then re-type that last character 
> > to get the autocomplete window to pop up again.
> 
> Not at the moment, but at least you can make the pop up reappear by 
> pressing Ctrl+Space, instead of erasing the entire word and retyping the 
> completion trigger. Ctrl+Space is also useful for invoking the 
> completion when there was nothing to trigger it, for example when 
> completing local variables.

Aha!  Very handy; thanks.

> These are interesting issues, but because of their unreliability I think 
> it would be better to find a way to upgrade to 1.1 and see if they're 
> still there. Especially switching editors works quite different 
> internally in 1.1.

Is there somewhere I can point ubuntu to get 1.1, or am I going to have 
to compile from source?

> One note about hiding the debug panes. All such panes can get removed by 
> pressing 'ESC'. This works for the search bar, help sidepane, 
> application output and also for generally switching back to the edit 
> mode (which gets rid of the debug panes).

Aha, also handy.  I still think there should be an 'X' in the debug panel 
to close it just like there is for the other ones, but ESC will work fine 
(now that I know about it).

I found another oddness (though still in 1.0.0):  in the debug panel, if I 
resize the 'Function' column to be larger so I can read what's in it, it 
will get larger for a little bit, and then flip back to giving all columns 
the default width.  The only way to get the function column big enough was 
to expand the entire Level/Function/File/Line window.  Once I get 1.1 
working, I can test whether this happens in that, too.

-Lucian