Add-on to Qt Designer

June 25th 2005: Trolltech strongly modified Designer in its new release Qt4. Designer no longer includes a C++ editor and a project management. Hence this Add-on becomes useless. Personnaly, I stopped using this Add-on and I moved to kdevelop.

These two features enhance Qt Designer towards a friendly C and C++ development environment.

• Browse large source files easily by indexing the C or C++ functions.
• Compile your application, your library, your entire package or run whatever console command inside the graphical environment. The outputs are parsed to find all links to source files. With a single click, you get the file opened at the right line (dedicated to gcc output formats, but results of egrep may follow the same rules)

Example of Qt Designer with the add-on

News

Current version is 1.4 (March 18 2005):

• Remove the modifications inside project.cpp that change the order of keywords for .pro files.
• For Linux Gentoo, you can modify the ebuild file (function src_unpack) by adding "epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-designer.patch". Copy "designer.patch" in "/usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-3.3.4-designer.patch".

Feb 19 2005:

• tested successfully with Qt 3.3.4

Features of version is 1.3 (Dec 13 2004):

• Now use the same registry key name as Qt designer (you may loose your settings).
• Command history now works correctly ("up arrow" to get the last command).
• Bug fix for "update" button.

• Dock bars in Designer workspace.
• Support for quotes and escape sequences in command line.
• Popup (green, orange, red) informs you that the operation finished even if you are working on other stuffs.
• Support for parsing results of nmake.exe (Windows)
• Custom current directory for running commands (before it was restricted to project path)
• Command history (saved and restored at each session). The 200 last commands are stored in the buffer but the most 10 used are kept on the top.
• Shortcuts 'F5', 'Enter' or 'Return' to start or stop command.

Downloads

Go to ftp server

Multi-platform Qt libraries and Qt Designer are developed by Trolltech

Platform

Currently tested for Linux (Gentoo), Mac OS X (Panther), and Windows (MSVC6 and bcc)

Contact

Author: Marc Wathelet

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