Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/07/18/qt-creator-4-7-0-released/

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berti• 8 years ago

These guys continue to do a great job. If you're looking for a nice cross-platform C++ IDE that supports multiple build systems this is it. I'm looking forward to upcoming meson integration (GSoC project IIRC).

Tyr42• 8 years ago

It's also got a quite usable Vim mode.

freedomben• 8 years ago

Second this. Fakevim in Qt Creator is one of the better Vim emulation implementations. Not perfect, but it's at least 90% of the way there. Probably 100% if you don't use lots of crazy ex commands like I do

zx2c42• 8 years ago

Qt Creator is a fantastic editor and IDE. If you're doing cross-platform GUI development, Qt is a good choice (especially compared to something grotesque and unseemly like Electron), and for Qt development, Qt Creator is as good as it gets. But it turns out that it works really well for generic C and C++ development too, even with obscure C like the Linux kernel, thanks to the Clang code model. I use Qt Creator sometimes when working on WireGuard (in addition to the usual typical vim/cli flow).

remoroid5• 8 years ago

Yep, if you can even compare Electron to Qt. Electron is just a buggy ill-conceived hack to wrap a browser with nodejs to make webpages. All it provides is a blank window with no customisation and a huge size and memory overhead.

ralusek• 8 years ago

VSCode, Figma.

dilap6• 8 years ago

I hate the slowness and bloat and entire ideology behind electron, BUT...electron apps do a pretty decent job of feeling native on the platform. Something I've never seen a Qt app do.

Would love a counter-example, if you've got one. I'm on a mac.

xfer• 8 years ago

Some people even prefer Qt Creator to CLion.

yani• 8 years ago

This is the IDE I use with pleasure. Very intuitive and fast.

DoofusOfDeath• 8 years ago

Anyone have a good way to run Qt Creator locally on their desktop, but edit, build, and debug code running on a remote, headless server?

I love Qt Creator, but this use-case has led me to settle for Vim+gdb over ssh.

[edit] Clarification: X-over-SSH isn't a good solution because of the lag.

jdp123• 8 years ago

have you tried sshfs?

exikyut• 8 years ago

That's just going to do remote file management, and introduce small lockups when you hit ^S if your latency is unideal.

I'm not sure if distcc is the answer here - I've never tried it - but it probably would be some people's default/first response.

nofunsir2• 8 years ago

TL;DR: Just set up the "Build" toolchain (configuration) in Qt Creator and point Qt Creator at your target (with the correct ssh user login) for when you click "Run" or "Debug".

http://wiki.qt.io/Raspberry_Pi_Beginners_Guide http://wiki.qt.io/RaspberryPi2EGLFS

These two tutorials use slightly different setups, so don't get confused on details, but both are great to glean tips from.

I've successfully used Qt Creator on both a Linux VM (desktop Intel) and a Windows desktop to build originally-desktop-based Qt projects for embedded Linux on ARM. The projects are not headless, but also do not use X to run the Qt GUI. Instead they use EGLFS.

Even if your software doesn't have a GUI, you can still do remote debugging with Qt Creator... or Eclipse, or Visual Studio , or anything that has the proper hooks.

I don't think any sane developer would want to use a remote X server to get to an instance of an IDE.

As long as you have the proper cross toolchain (some cost $) set up correctly in Qt, and your target code is all included properly (libraries and headers for your target, NOT your dev machine), you should be able to do exactly what you want for any desktop+remote target pair.

Additionally you don't even have to work in Linux to target Embedded Linux:

https://wiki.qt.io/Visual_Studio_Add-in https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/30/visual-c-...

nofunsir2• 8 years ago

Specifically, I think the tip to make an exact copy of the target's sysroot structure (libraries, headers, etc) on your dev machine using rsync (and remember to fix the symbolic links!) is very valuable.

Then make sure your project is (only) aware of those headers and libraries.

uvatbc• 8 years ago

Are you looking for something like Emacs' Tramp mode (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode)?

We've been working on an equivalent that can work with IDEs like QtCreator.

Send me a note to the email in my profile, lets see if we can help out.

xmichael999• 8 years ago

C# C# C# one day?

nurettin• 8 years ago

I'd like to mention that the IDE has a scxml editor which I've been abusing for generating business logic lately.

Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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