[Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin

[André Hartmann]

Hi Jason,

 > How would I go about finding and installing this plug in? I looked in
Preferences, nothing there, tried About Plugins.. doesn't seem to have
an on-line repository search & install feature?

That's the reason I wrote the mail. The plugin is integrated into
Creators source repository [1], but not build with the official packages.

You have two options for now:

1. Build Creator yourself
2. Find someone the builds Creator for you (e.g. a Linux distri)

Best regards,
André

[1]
https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/src/plugins/serialterminal


On 14.10.19 15:35, Jason H wrote:
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>> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 2:59 PM
>> From: "André Hartmann" <aha_1980 at gmx.de>
>> To: qt-creator <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
>> Subject: [Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> the Serial Terminal plugin was added to Qt Creator in spring 2018. It
>> still has the experimental state, but I think the biggest problem is
>> that it is not included in the official Qt Creator builds. A lot of
>> potential users might not even know it exists.
>>
>> Given the ongoing support for microcontrollers in Qt Creator, I think it
>> would be a good opportunity to deliver this plugin with Creator. It's
>> only dependency seems to be QSerialPort, which is a relatively
>> lightweight module and therefore should not hurt much.
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> O_o
>
> Without knowing anything about this, it would probably be a help since I talk to 3D printers (Arduinos) and other serial things quite often.
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> It would also be very cool if it could simulate a serial device so I could mimic real hardware.
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> How would I go about finding and installing this plug in? I looked in Preferences, nothing there, tried About Plugins.. doesn't seem to have an on-line repository search & install feature?
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>