[Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin

[André Hartmann]

Thanks a lot, Eike!

Regards, André

On 24.10.19 12:32, Eike Ziller wrote:
> FYI
> the SerialTerminal plugin is now part of the binary snapshots.
>
> Br, Eike
>
>> On 14. Oct 2019, at 20:50, André Hartmann <aha_1980 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It would also be very cool if it could simulate a serial device so I could mimic real hardware.
>>>
>>> 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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