[Qt-creator] access to gdb console

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 09:54:26AM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> 
> On 2021-01-05 2:39 a.m., André Hartmann wrote:
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > you probably want to comment and vote on
> > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-19870 as ultimate solution.
> > 
> > Until then, you can use the left part of Views > Views > Debugger Log to
> > insert GDB commands.
> > 
> > Note that you can also add gdb startup commands at Tools > Options >
> > Debugger > GDB.
> 
> How does qt-creator support applications that interact with the user via
> stdin/stdout ? Does it ?

You can check "Run in terminal" in the Run Settings of the project and
get a separate terminal window in that case.
 
> My use-case is this: I'm embedding a Python interpreter into my (Qt)
> application which is attached to stdin / stdout. This allows me to interact
> with the application using Python commands. For automated testing I'm
> providing a set of Python scripts that are fed to the program (one per
> test). But the real power comes from interactive testing, which allows me to
> control and introspect the application state from a Python interpreter.
> 
> It would be very valuable to run all of this within qt-creator, so I could
> follow along with the debugger.  Outside qt-creator I'm already able to
> start this from a gdb prompt, so I can debug this whole setup. All that's
> missing is the ability to do this from within qt-creator, so
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-19870 looks indeed like the
> solution to this.

Note that the QML console is not a "terminal" at all. No fancy control
characters etc.

Andre'