[Qt-creator] Refreshing the project tree

[achartier at fastmail.fm]

That would be a great feature (if possible, please make sure this action
can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut :).

Thanks,

-Alfonso

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013, at 01:33 PM, André Pönitz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 03:05:18PM +0000, Ziller Eike wrote:
> > 
> > On 16.09.2013, at 19:20, 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.
> > 
> > 
> > Why not simply a "refresh project tree" item in the project's context
> > menu? That shouldn't hurt anyone either and would actually be explicit,
> > not a magic side effect of something that also does a whole lot more
> > (like generating files in the build directory).
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> Andre'