[Qt-creator] Presenter Window

[Leandro T. C. Melo]

On 3/24/2011 4:44 PM, ext Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing trainings from time to time, and I'm using Qt Creator as my editor
> during the trainings.
> The basic setup is a dual-screen setup: my laptop and the beamer. I'm using
> this setup because I can display the slide on the beamer, and see the next
> slides+notes on the laptop.
>
> As you can imagine, it doesn't play well with Qt Creator, so I created a new
> window to clone the current editor, and a menu item to display it. So now I
> can work on my laptop and students see what I'm typing. Whenever I change the
> editor in Qt Creator, it's changed in the presenter window, the cursor are
> synced and the current line stay in the middle of the presenter window.
>
> I tested it and it's working quite well (minus one crash when removing all
> editors), my question is: does it make sense to clean it up and do a merge
> request? or put in another way, are you interested in such a feature?
> I can totally understand the answer is no.
>
> It's not a new plugin (can't do it like that, as it needs some internal
> classes), but the patch is really small:
> For those interested:
> http://qt.gitorious.org/+kdab-developers/qt-creator/kdab-qt-
> creator/commits/presenter
>

Hi Nicolas,

I wonder whether this would actually be a more generic use case which 
would allow somehow detaching the editor... Then, in your case, perhaps 
splitting it and moving it to the other screen would be a good approach?

Cheers,
Leandro.

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Leandro T. C. Melo
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks

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