[Qt-creator] Shadown Builds and Completion in UI Classes

[Thorbjørn Lindeijer]

ext Chris W wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Qt 1.1.0, and 21 June snapshot, Qt 4.5.1 on Linux.
> 
> If I use the Qt Creator shadow build feature, or a .pro that does a similar
> thing explicitly, then code completion in UI classes fails.  It seems the
> completer does not look in the shadow directory for ui_*.h files or does not
> parse then well.  Rather than being shown the widget members of the UI I am
> shown only the class name from the Ui name space.  For example, in the generic
> generated code below completion fails after typing "m_ui->" showing only
> "AlarmView" rather than a list containing the two widgets in the designer and
> the ui_alarmview.h files.
> 
> If I disable shadow building the completion works perfectly well.

For 1.2 we changed the way in which the generated UI files are added to 
the C++ engine, so that they should be always up to date to your latest 
edits. You can try a recent snapshot to see if that also fixes your problem:

ftp://ftp.qtsoftware.com/qtcreator/snapshots/

Regards,
Bjørn

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Thorbjørn Lindeijer
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Software