[Qt4-preview-feedback] More feedback on QScriptDebugger

[Axel Jäger]

Hi,
I'm doing an application that is primarily a script application. Thus  
I provide a text editor and some docks around to show my special  
QObject that gets manipulated through the users scripts. When I saw  
the screenshots of QScriptDebugger in the docs I was happy to maybe  
save the time to implement both syntax hightlighting and a fancy  
editor widget.

Unfortunately I see no way to use QScriptDebuggers code widget as  
primary text editor in my application. I can understand that maybe  
breakpoints and stuff talk to the debugger or for whatever reason the  
code editor is private. It also still has some bugs (see my mail ten  
minutes ago). But the syntaxhighlighter could be public API because  
nokia/Qt-software defines the QScript language so it makes a lot of  
sense that Qt-software also provides the syntax highlighter. The same  
is valid for the syntax highlighter of Qt Stylesheets used in the  
stylesheet editor of Qt Designer.

It also makes a lot of sense to give the user the same editor widget  
for both editing AND debugging code. Otherwise the user of an  
application will be pissed of while editing and code and looks forward  
to the happy time when he can debug and is allowed to use the cool  
editor. The other option would be to make a better editor widget than  
the one provided by the debugger so the user will be punished with a  
worse editor when using the debugger.

Sounds like an odd idea.

I know that I could just copy both QScriptEdit and  
QScriptSyntaxHighlighter into my own application but we all know that  
this is a bad idea. Anyway I did so for the moment and it works  
surprisingly well.

So I'd have a solution but I want to give you valuable feedback from  
the user and what I think about your API :)

Best regards,
Axel

Axel Jäger
Developer

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