[Qt-creator] Follow Symbol Under Cursor always takes me to the header file

[Michael Jackson]

Thank you for the suggestions. I decided to move my entire .config/QtProject to the side and restart QtCreator and now I seem to get the proper behavior. Moving the old settings back into place seems to go back to the old behavior so I guess there is just something in the settings file(s) that messes with the ability to jump to the definition versus the declaration. I’ll just consider this a user-error and move on… 

 

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Mike Jackson

 

From: Adam Light <aclight at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, February 19, 2021 at 9:43 AM
To: Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>
Cc: Qt-creator <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Follow Symbol Under Cursor always takes me to the header file

 

 

 

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 3:04 PM Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:

I have a .cpp file opened. I am sitting at a piece of code and I want to jump to the method definition, I right click and select "Follow Symbol Under Cursor", QtCreator takes me to the "declaration" in the header file. How do I get it to jump to the definition instead?

As a side note: This has *never* worked for me since I have started using QtCreator. I just put up with it. But this has got to be a "user error" on my part but I can't figure out what should be doing instead. 

 

This happens to us in some places in our code where the declaration and the definition of a function are not identical.

 

For example, the .h file has:

void foo(QWidget* w);

 

and the  .cpp file has:

void foo(QWidgetPtr w);

 

somewhere in our code (though perhaps not in a place that the .h file #includes) there is a typedef that defines QWidgetPtr as QWidget*, therefore the code compiles.

 

If we change the types to be the same in the .h and .cpp file, then Follow Symbol Under Cursor works as expected. But otherwise it only takes us to the .h file.

 

If it's never worked for you then this is probably not what you're running into, but I thought I'd mention this just in case.

 

Adam

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