[Qt-creator] Qt Creator and Serial Console

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-creator-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:qt-
> creator-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Alexander Stillich
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 4:23 PM
> To: qt-creator at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Qt-creator] Qt Creator and Serial Console
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I'm getting started with an Arduino and microcontrollers in general.
> While the Arduino IDE is quick to set up, I don't find it very comfortable.
> 
> Luckily, theres a Arduino Project Wizard which will help me get started using
> Qt Creator for development. However, I can't find any info on how to display
> the Arduino's serial output in Qt Creator. Is there a hack to make Creator read
> from a serial device and display the output in one of its panes?
> 
> If not, I might want to write a plugin which does this. Pointers on how to get
> this done quickly would be appreciated. A Linux-only solution would be fine,
> but if it's easy to make it portable, that would be even better.

Sounds like you should look into QtSerialPort: http://qt-project.org/wiki/QtSerialPort :) It'll be even part of the official Qt libraries from 5.1 on ...

Regards

Kai