[Qt-creator] Creator UI, MDI vs SDI, tabs, etc.

[Ziller Eike]

> On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:17 PM, René J. V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ziller Eike wrote:
> 
>> Yes, it behaves like splitting, just opening a new window.
> 
> Makes sense, I guess. It would probably make less sense when opening a not-yet-
> opened document directly in a new window, esp. not if that ever becomes an 
> optional default behaviour. In that case it would conflict with the possibility 
> to keep the main window for the navigator and (maximised) output panels.

Adding a “Move to New Window” action to the window/split menu, and opening documents in a new window and not in the main window, should be easy to implement.

> 
>> A .ui file is just another way for setting what kind of layout some UI should
>> use, but that is independent from whether that layout is dynamically taking
>> font sizes into account or not.
> 
> So setting the font via the .ui file (using the Designer or otherwise) never has 
> the effect one might expect?

It sets the font. That’s what I’d expect. If widgets and layouts that are used within the .ui file adapt in the desired way to that, depends on the used layouts. The desired way of course depends on what the one designing the UI wants, of course.

> 
>> It means that Qt Creator was quitting while these processes where still
> 
> Why yes, that's fairly obvious. What's much less obvious is why it would quit 
> almost as soon as I start it, before I even see a window.
> I'd use a debugger to break on the location where the QProcess error is printed, 
> but the issue has been unpredictable until now, and it would require me to 
> rebuild at least QtBase with LTO (which apparently produces shared libraries 
> without debug information on OS X).

The process error in the app output is most probably not the reason for Qt Creator quitting, but a symptom of it.

-- 
Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - The Qt Company GmbH
 
The Qt Company GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin
Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B