[Qt-creator] Kit and device concept in QtCreator

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi David,

On 05.09.2013 20:33, David Kaspar wrote:
> This describes a generic interface that would allow to supply any
> structure into "Mini Project Target Selector" - not only a 'Devices'
> selection.
> Anyway it seems that there is no use-case for it, so I am taking the
> proposal back.

My plan was to allow for kits to put any of their settings into the mini 
target selector. It has the icon of the kit, so it kind of makes sense 
to me to make the kit (partly) editable there. At least more sense that 
anywhere else that is:-)

Basically I wanted to have some flag that can be set on the individual 
KitInformation that make up any kit that will allow those to be 
editable. You can then set this flag on the deviceKitInformation for 
your kits.

Your proposal goes beyond having just the kit settings: Which use case 
do you have for that and why do you think the UI should go into the mini 
project target selector?

> Yes, that would be enough for our use-case. For my API proposal, I
> assumed that we should not modify 'IDevice' class.

Can you think of a better place for that functionality? I am not set on 
having it my way:-)

> Would it be ok if we implement the Devices selection in the 'Mini
> Project Target Selector' using 'bool isCompatible(Kit)' function
> (default implementation would return 'false')?

No.

It would be great to have a implementation that uses a the current logic 
to match up devices and kits (purely based on the kit's device type 
IIRC). Just returning false is not an option as that will break all kits 
since no device would match anymore and all of them would end up without 
any device set at all.

Then that method can be used to by the DeviceKitInformation's config 
widget. That is the UI currently used to select Devices in 
Tools>Options>Build & Run>Kits to select the device there.

Then we can reuse that UI in other places, like the Mini Project Target 
selector. That will require a couple of changes to the kits so that what 
can be shown is configurable. What I do not want is to hardcode what 
will be displayed where.

Best Regards,
Tobias

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