[Qt-creator] Refreshing the project tree

[achartier at fastmail.fm]

I ended up taking a previous suggestion and putting these auto-generated
files in a separate .pri file. This actually works quite well, as Qt
Creator seems to have some kind of file watcher on the .pri file and the
project tree gets updated almost immediately once this file changes.

For our use case at least, this approach seems to be acceptable.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Alfonso

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013, at 11:24 AM, André Pönitz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 08:03:38PM +0200, Orgad Shaneh wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:20 PM, André Pönitz <
> > andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> > 
> >     On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:32:58AM +0000, Hunger Tobias wrote:
> >     > > Currently running qmake doesn't seem to update the project tree. If
> >     > > running qmake did update it, that would be fine. I don't know if there
> >     > > are other use cases where it may be desirable (or clearer) to have a
> >     > > separate explicit "refresh project tree" button available.
> >     >
> >     > That is correct: I am not aware of forcing a reparse short of touching a
> >     > .pro file. [...]
> >     > Or are you relying on wildcards here? That would be strange, considering
> >     > that you generate the code and could just add it to the .pro files while
> >     > at it anyway.  But even with wildcards it should be trivial to just touch
> >     > any .pro/.pri file.
> > 
> >     Giving the discussion I wonder whether this should simply be forced
> >     when running Build->Run qmake explicitly.
> > 
> >     This should ease Alfonso's pain and not really hurt other uses.
> > 
> > 
> > I disagree. We have a project with thousands of files, and the "Evaluating"
> > phase takes at least 10-15 seconds (not to mention the subsequent Parsing).
> 
> How often do you manually trigger that action? (Serious question, I
> barely
> use it, but then I regularly build from the command line)
>  
> > I wouldn't want to reparse the project every time I run qmake.
> > 
> > That said, it would be very useful for us as well to have an action for
> > reparsing the project. We use wildcards for source files as well as INI files
> > (in OTHER_FILES).
> 
> A separate options sounds ok, too, it'd just looks like a bit of clutter
> in
> a top-level menu for a rare use case.
> 
> What about yet another checkbox in the global Build&Run settings?
> 
> Andre'