[Qt-creator] Integration of an external program into the IDE

[Arto Karppinen]

On 19.02.2010 10:38, Eike Ziller wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:05 AM, ext juergen.lanner at besi.com wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I am seeking a way to integrate an external program into the IDE in a way e.g. Visual Studio allows to do  it. 
>>
>> To be more precise: I would like to start it with some shortcut and hand over some data like current selection, current file name and path, ... 
>> Is there something like this already available? 
> 
> No.
> 
>> I think this might be a very common use case for developers. 
>>
>> If it is not available by now I suppose digging deeper into the plugin mechanism is the right way to go ahead, isn't it? :-) 
> 
> You might want to "take over" http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-80, would be glad to accept contributions in this directions :)
> 

I too have been thinking about this. It would be usefull to somehow open
files in Qt Creator after i, for example, grep for something in my sources.

Perhaps some kind of DBUS api would be the correct thing to build?

Btw: I actually run two QtCreators at the same time, one for my server
application and another for my client which connects to the server, so
that i can debug both at the same time.

Anyways, this means that if i want to open a file in Qt Creator using
some kind of external method, it should be able to distinguish between
those those two instances of Qt Creator.

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Arto Karppinen
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