[Qt-creator] Qt Creator locator build commands mapping

[Shinnok]

Not sure how many of you are similar with the Help search functionality in OS X, basically one presses CMD+? keyboard shortcut and is presented with a search box in the Menubar that allows the user to search and execute for options residing in the File menus(as well as help items). Screenshot:



I find my self frequently using this OS X functionality when working on that platform. The reason for that is that I frequently switch dev platforms and hardware and quite often it gets hard to think for a second or so what was the keyboard shortcut for a specific command on the current platform I’m working on.
Thus I arrived to this conclusion, having an alternative to this OS X only perk built into the Locator itself, would yield itself as very useful solution provided by The Creator itself and available on all platforms.

Regards.

> On Jan 15, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Benjamin Zeller <benjamin.zeller at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> Am 15.01.2015 um 14:24 schrieb Ziller Eike:
>>> On Jan 15, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> You can already assign shortcuts to build/run/clean/deploy/rebuild. So
>>> why do you want to go through the locator to trigger those? Ctrl-K
>>> "build" is way more to type than Ctrl-B:-)
>>> 
>>> Benjamin: Why would we want to have every action from the ActionManager
>>> in the Locator?
>> It couldn’t work that way, since the availability of an action (and what it actually exactly does) might heavily depend on where the focus currently is.
>> Think Ctrl+z (Undo) ;)
> Ok, true the actions are not always available and it does not make sense 
> for all of them.
> So exposing all actions is not the right idea, but a way to map custom
> locator commands to actions from ActionManager would work.
> So you map "Run QML checks" to ";qc" in Locator. Just as an example.
> 
> Maybe even a chain of actions, a bit like a macro.
>> 
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Tobias
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>>> On Do, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:19 , Benjamin Zeller
>>> <benjamin.zeller at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>> Am 15.01.2015 um 11:55 schrieb Shinnok:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a way to add/access the builtin build commands(clean,
>>>>> rebuild) and other Qt Creator actions to the Locator? I know that I
>>>>> can call custom CLI commands with the ! prefix from the Locator, but
>>>>> I am looking for something more similar to the Fake Vim Command
>>>>> Mapping approach.
>>>> I agree, that would be interesting. Probably exposing the
>>>> Core::ActionManager to the
>>>> Locator would be an idea?
>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Shinnok
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