[Qt-creator] 2 suggestion and a problem ;)

[Eike Ziller]

Hi,

Am Nov 4, 2009 um 9:02 AM schrieb ext Christophe Meessen:

> Hello,
>
> The first suggestion is the following. I use tiddlywiki which is a  
> wiki
> self contained in a single html file. I use it to store my todo,
> software manual, howto information.  A double click on it opens the  
> wiki
> in my prefered browser and allows me to edit it. I would be nice if it
> was possible to add an html file to a Qt project, or project  
> subfolder,
> so that double clicking it would open a WebKit window (as QtDesigner
> does) and allow me to view and eventually edit the html file content.

First part is possible (showing it in project tree): Add it as  
"OTHER_FILES+=yourfile" in your .pro file, similar to how you'd do it  
with source files and "SOURCES+=foo".
But there's no "html editor" in Qt Creator.

> The second suggestion, would be to allow to add the binding between a
> type of file and a specific editor/viewer. When this type of file is
> added to the project, a double click on it would start the  
> corresponding
> editor/viewer. I guess the editor/viewer would be added as a plugin.  
> The
> kind of editor/viewers that would be interesting are  a binary hex  
> file
> editor, image editor, sound editor, video editor, etc.

Did you notice that Qt Creator already has a binary (hex) editor :)

The adding of editors is at the moment possible to do via plugins.
Plugins which add editors would also define which "kind of files" they  
can/want to open.
I'd suppose that the binary editor in Qt Creator is a good example of  
how such plugins would look like:
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator/trees/master/src/plugins/bineditor

What is missing in Qt Creator is a user interface to change the  
default mapping between file types and
editors to use in Qt Creator.

> I met the following problem with Qt Creator 4.5. My current project is
> big, so I use subfolders and pri files which works well. Each of these
> subfolders group the model view controller classes of a particular
> functionality of my system. When I start a new project, I simply add
> symbolic links (unix) to the wiget folder and the include  
> instruction in
> the .pro file and thats it. Unfortunately I wasn't able to add a  
> simple
> text file in the .pri file. It is ignored.

How did you try to add it in the pri file?
We use e.g. "OTHER_FILES += someqdocfile.qdoc" in doc/doc.pri in the  
Qt Creator sources, and that works fine for me.
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator/blobs/master/doc/doc.pri

Note that you must be careful with using "=" in pro and pri files - if  
you use assignment "OTHER_FILES=" in the pro file and the pri file,  
one will override the other.

> .txt files can only be added
> in the .pro file. I use it to track my todos. Though I would prefer to
> use tiddlywiki  files instead of text files. It would also be used as
> manual or logbok. Unfortunately the tddlywiki are big files, ~350KB. A
> pluggin could hold a single copy of all the java script code so that  
> the
> file contains only the user data. But the principle is great.

-- 
Eike Ziller
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
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