[Qt-creator] Qt Creator 2.2 released

[Danny Price]

Amazing job.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:26 AM, André Pönitz <andre.poenitz at nokia.com>wrote:

>
> We are happy to announce the appearance of a Qt Labs blog post
> starting with the words "We are happy to announce" at
>
>  http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/05/06/qt-creator-2-2-released/
>
> Have fun!
>
> Andre'
>
>
> PS:  There's a lot of new stuff, upgrading is highly recommended.
>
> >From the "changes" file:
>
> General
>   * Add support for running user defined external tools (Tools > External)
>   * Move tool chain definitions out of Qt versions:
>      * You can now define tool chains in Tools > Options > Tool Chains
>      * Qt Creator now supports more than one instance of a tool chain
>   * Add support for customizing MIME types by editing patterns and
>     magic headers
>   * Integrate the memcheck tool from Valgrind for Linux and Mac OS X
>   * Create the infrastructure to set up "soft dependencies" between plugins
>   * Add the qtpromaker tool that has the same functionality as
>     "qmake -project", but is much faster. It provides a way to easily set
> up
>     dummy .pro files that you need to quickly inspect and navigate "alien"
>     codebases with Qt Creator
>   * Document Qt Creator coding style
>
> Editing
>   * Add an Inkpot color scheme
>   * Add UTF-8 BOM support
>   * Move the Open in External Editor item to Tools > External > Text
>   * Add the Expand/Collapse All context menu item to the Outline pane
>   * Add support for user-defined macros (contributed by Nicolas
> Arnaud-Cormos)
>   * Add a snippet editor with syntax highlighting, indentation, and basic
>     auto-completion for C++ and QML
>   * Add GLSL support with:
>     - Syntax checking
>     - Highlighting
>     - Code completion
>   * Binary editor:
>     - Visualize data differences after updates
>     - Fix selection if cursor is left of anchor
>     - Allow copying also if selection is "backwards"
>     - Do not draw blinking cursor when there is a selection
>     FakeVim:
>     - Implement Ctrl-N/Ctrl-P
>     - Implement 's' in visual block mode
>     - Fix Alt-Gr handling on Windows
>     - Handle more Ctrl-W + <x> commands
>
> Managing Projects
>   * Improve the robustness of qmake project support against syntax errors
>   * Change the handling of command line arguments of processes that are
>     started from build and run configurations:
>     - Argument lists use native shell syntax; this affects quoting and
>       environment variable expansion most
>     - The SOURCEDIR and BUILDDIR environment variables were replaced
>       with %{sourceDir} and %{buildDir} variables
>     - This affects working directories and executable paths as well
>   * Support syntax highlighting and completion for qmake project files
>   * CMake: Add UI completion, changes in .ui files are picked up without
>     a rebuild
>   * Specify text editor behavior settings per project
>   * New project and file wizards:
>     - Support new keywords %MONTH% and %DAY% for C++ template file
>     - Add wizards for creating OpenGL fragment and vertex shaders
>     - Add a wizard for creating HTML5 based applications
>     - Add a wizard for creating JavaScript files, QTCREATORBUG-3070
>
> Debugging
>   * Rewrite debugging engine using the Microsoft Console Debugger (CDB)
>     for debugging executables built with Microsoft Visual Studio,
>     resulting in significant speed-up and better display of data
>     types, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the
>     Debugging Tools for Windows
>   * Make it possible to pin debugger tooltips
>   * Rework global architecture to allow multiple debugging sessions (for
>     different projects, combined QML/C++ debugging, project snapshots,
>     and so on)
>   * Rework breakpoint handling: add special breakpoint types for break
>     on throw and break on main, as well as data breakpoints
>   * Introduce combined QML/C++ debugging (combined stack, cross-step) (GDB
> only)
>   * Rework per-type and per-item selection of display formats
>   * Add dumpers for QTextCursor, QTextDocument, __m128, QScriptValue
>     QBasicAtomicPointer, bit fields, boost::shared_ptr (GDB only)
>   * Improve dumpers for QRegion, QVariant (custom types), QSharedPointer,
>     QMultiMap (QTCREATORBUG-3122), QObject, QWeakPointer
>   * Make alphabetic structure member sorting optional
>   * Make dumpers robust in case of missing debug information
>   * Improve Python dumper profiling support
>   * Improve stepping performance
>   * Enable breakpoint setting from a disassembler view, QTCREATORBUG-3667
>   * Fix display of shadowed variables
>   * Fix display of data containing quote characters, QTCREATORBUG-3084
>   * Fix display of C-style typedef struct X { ... } X;
>   * Fix stack/break view updates after manual module loading,
> QTCREATORBUG-3427
>   * Fix Jump To/Run To when in instruction-wise mode
>   * Fix the watcher handling
>   * Allow re-running debugger engines, QTCREATORBUG-3073
>   * Robust process control after -exec-interrupt errors, QTCREATORBUG-2850
>   * Robust detection of Qt-in-namespace builds
>   * Handle "live updates" in the memory view
>   * Make memory view writable (GDB only)
>   * Improve starting debugger session directly from the command line
>   * Improve Debugging Helpers dialog
>
> Debugging QML/JS
>   * Compile qmljsdebugger code as static library, and link it according to
> the
>     setting in the qmake step (replaces QMLJSDEBUGGER_PATH / QMLJSDEBUGGER
> define)
>   * Qt Quick Application: Allow debugging also in release builds, improve
> error
>     diagnostics
>   * GUI cosmetics in JS debugger: Show stack frame level, only valid
>     line numbers in stack view, do not show function code, show dummy
>     child entry for empty arrays
>   * Added QML tooltips for property inspection at debug time
>   * Extend QML Observer for inspection and tweaking of item properties
>   * Add navigation of the object tree in the QML Observer through a crumble
> path
>   * Add the Show Application on Top option
>   * Move the toolbar from the Observer tab to the main toolbar
>   * Support setting of breakpoints in .qml files embedded as qrc resources
>   * Improve linking of QML errors in Application Output pane
>
> C++ Support
>   * Add a refactoring action for implementing setters and getters for
>     a Q_PROPERTY
>   * Add documentation for refactoring actions
>   * Fix switch statement indentation for GNU and Whitesmiths
>     style, QTCREATORBUG-2994
>   * Fix indentation of labels
>   * Support highlighting for virtual functions
>   * Navigate to correct overloaded function or method
>
> QML/JS Support
>   * Add local-file completion for URL properties, QTCREATORBUG-2619
>   * Add warning about invalid files in URL properties
>   * Add file name completion in imports, QTCREATORBUG-3067
>   * Add a locator filter for JS functions, QTCREATORBUG-2607
>   * Add JSlint-style warnings about common JS pitfalls, QTCREATORBUG-3071
>   * Add completion for attached properties like Component.onCompleted
>   * Allow QML modules to ship predumped type description files
>   * Reenable instantiating component scope detection, QTCREATORBUG-2835
>   * Improve error reporting of failed plugin dumps
>   * Complete a trailing '{' for 'A on b' object bindings, QTCREATORBUG-2642
>   * Highlight capitalized types, QTCREATORBUG-2658
>   * Re-dump a plugin if the shared library/DLL changes, QTCREATORBUG-3047
>   * Build qmldump in debug and release version on Windows,
> QTCREATORBUG-3549
>   * Change qmldump to output QML instead of XML
>   * Fix automatic '.' import to also pick up QML modules, QTCREATORBUG-3768
>   * Fix code model update when files are renamed, QTCREATORBUG-2986
>   * Fix incorrect completion when brace is on a separate line,
> QTCREATORBUG-2658
>   * Fix quote autoinsertion in string literals, QTCREATORBUG-2155,
> QTCREATORBUG-3244
>   * Fix '{' not being an electric character, QTCREATORBUG-3405
>   * Fix indentation of 'foo: Namesp.Type {', QTCREATORBUG-3371
>   * .qmlproject format: Allow specifying the 'mainFile' qml file, bump
> version to 1.1
>   * Qt Quick UI project: allow user to change run environment
>
> Symbian Target
>   * Add support for the new on-device debugging agent (CODA)
>
> Maemo Target
>   * Add MeeGo support
>   * Add a wizard for configuring connections to Maemo and MeeGo devices
>   * Add a wizard for publishing applications to Fremantle/extras-devel
>   * Create desktop files on demand
>   * Allow disabling packaging for Fremantle
>
> Qt Designer
>
> Version control plugins
>   * Support Bazaar (contributed by Hugues Delorme)
>
> Additional credits go to:
>   * The Inkpot color scheme was based on the Vim color scheme by
>     Ciaran McCreesh, adapted for Qt Creator by Jan Kundrát and
>     subsequently updated by Campbell Barton
>   * Hugues Delorme for the Bazaar plugin which he continues to improve
>   * Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos for the Macro plugin
>
>
> For more details, check the git log.
>
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