[Qt-creator] Bug reports

[Eike Ziller]

Hi,

On Feb 1, 2010, at 7:05 PM, ext Charles N Burns wrote:

> I really enjoy the use of Qt Creator, and want to help how I can by
> reporting some minor bugs I've come across. Please let me know if
> these are misunderstandings on my part.

Thank you for the feedback, if you use bugreports.qt.nokia.com to report the issues, the chance of them being lost is reduced :)

> 1) When I add a new file with [right click --> add new], the default
> folder is not the project folder, but its containing folder. Seems
> non-intuitive.

That bug occurs if you say "add new" in the context menu of the "category" folders (like "Form Files", "Source Files" etc). Works if you "add new" from the context menu of the project node.
Actually there's a open task for that, see e.g. 
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-403

> 2) In the form designer, it doesn't seem possible to drag a QLabel to
> the status bar control. This can be done in code, but then the UI
> details are divided between several files necessarily. This is more a
> feature request.
> 
> 3) In the form designer, when placing a layout [A] within another
> layout [B], it seems nearly impossible to place a control or other
> layout into [A], because [B] takes all available room. It seems more
> intuitive to me to leave some "drag to" space on both sides.

These would be requests for project "Qt" component "Designer" at bugreports.qt.nokia.com.
Regarding 3), actually there is some "drag space", and the place where a control will be added is indicated by a (red?) line. It might be that it has its issues though.

> 4) The option [Text Editor --> Behavior --> Clean Whitespace] is very
> useful, but it should not clean the whitespace of the currently active
> line of text. I often save with CTRL+S, and when I do this, the
> indentation of my current line (If otherwise blank) is lost. This can
> be annoying when saving a lot right before adding a new line.

How could it be possible to know if you intend to continue typing or not?
If you are annoyed by that, perhaps doing it explicitly "Clean Whitespace" instead of the automatic cleaning on save works out for you.
Either invoke it from the Menu (Edit->Advanced->Clean Whitespace),
or assign a keyboard shortcut of your liking to it (Tools->Options->Environment->Keyboard, type "Clean Whitespace" as a filter for the list, assign a shortcut), and use that.

> 5) When adding an existing Designer form with [right click on Forms
> --> add new], the form (which is a header file) is added as a header
> file, not as an abstracted "foo.ui".

Whatever you create, the generated file(s) are sorted into the different categories by file type. It is a bit confusing that you can create a .h file from the dialog that you get when saying "add new" from the "Form Files" category folder, though. If you create a "Qt Designer Form Class", three files will be created (.h, .cpp and .ui), which are sorted into the different categories (Headers, Sources, Forms).

Regards, Eike

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Eike Ziller
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks

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