Qt Creator - 01 An Introduction

[mmikkone]

The last time I tried Qt Creator it broke down so badly that I had to reinstall it. When it broke the second time, I didn't bother anymore. I changed to Eclipse CDT 7.0.1. It's very buggy also, but at least I haven't had to reinstall it. As a side note: CDT 8.0 seems to be even worse.

[iforce2d]

qtCreator rocks my world

honestly, it's the best discovery of the last few years for me - and I'm not even using it for qt development that much

[7337cod3r]

Apple Lcd .....That why n8 has way more less market then iphone

[werewolfvsvamp]

I have a code written in C++ and now I want to complie it using QT Creator. How to do it? This code was not written using QT.

[Icosebyte]

@DarthV1CT0R Same here, I use QT Creator even for non-QT projects.

[BufferOverflowAttack]

You need screen record in software like I need to start pulling out. Though - I am rather jealous, you working at QT :P

[nickreserved]

Qt Creator is very cool.

But I use another GUI for coding (Code::Blocks).

Tell me why I must change my environment. Because I choose to use Qt? A library takes decision for my environment?

[juzzlin]

@nickreserved No, you don't have to change your environment :) You can code Qt software with any editor and compile things manually. Just like I do. I still find Qt Creator really good.

[nickreserved]

@02daft Yes Qt is bloated but it is good because you can program hand-held devices. I was using wxWidgets but I migrate to Qt because of this.

[SiokPT]

Hi, is it possible to develop in Linux and deploy to Windows ?

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and i don't see any option to create an executable for windows.

Thank you

[JaxDragon1]

@SiokPT Look up mingw32 in the repos.

[itallia1]

Finally! Eclipse was excellent for Java but for C++ it was barely struggling...

This is the best IDE I have used in a very long time!

[iExD]

So which one is better? Microsoft's Visual C++ or QT Creator?

[TheGattos]

@iExD Witch one is cross-platform?:D

[02daft]

QT looks like another bloated ready solution,if too many people are using it it's already a bad sign..wxWidgets seems much better

[JiveDadson]

Another question that I cannot get an answer for on the Qt forums. When I install the plain vanilla SDK for Windows (precompiled), Qt Creator tries to use the gc++ compiler with the vc++ header files, so I cannot compile anything. Any idea where it's getting the path to the VC++ headers, and how to keep it from doing that?

Again, I know this is not the place, but I can get no responses on the Qt forums. Thanks.

[JiveDadson]

Can someone answer a question for me? I've tried the Qt forums, to no avail.

I want to run Qt 4.6.1 and Qt Creator on MS Windows using VC++ 2008 Express. I found and installation .exe for the full SDK, using gc++ rather than vc++. I found an installation .exe for the libraries compiled under vc++. But I cannot figure out how to use a precompiled Qt Creator with the vc++ libraries. I've spent the better part of two days on it. The Youtube comment section is my last hope.

[gmurshedg]

hi,

great works..

lovely ,, keep it up with more details.

thanks

[virtualspecies]

Nice for an 1.x release - however, code completion does not work in most cases, which is a major productivity issue when coming from modern IDEs like Apple's Xcode or Eclipse.

There you don't have to type more then a couple of characters for any code construct, whether #include or import statements (+ guessing the file names), class names or if-then-else/switch/loops/.. constructs.

Neither of the above yet works in QtCreator - but then it's just an initial release, so we can still hope :-)

[trecool9992]

The designer makes it really hard to write your own stuff. It's really hard to edit a window's C++ file, and when you can, the editor makes it really messy.

[rbaleksandar]

Well, if there isn't any UI involved, I advise you to use a normal text editor. It's the same when you try using a Eclipse for editing some tiny seperate file - takes too much time and it's messy (as you called it).

[exceilence]

nice nice nice )))

[acabFan]

Eclipse in another kind of IDE; It's was made only for QT.

[altu892]

nice,

better than eclipse

[agnosticpope1]

I've been using creator for ~3 months now as my primary dev environment (from a console/editor world). And I really like it. I work on a large project (1000+ files) and the ability to "search" with Ctrl+K for functions or filenames has improved my workflow dramatically.

There's a lot of keyboard shortcuts which are easily discoverable and since I type code with a keyboard, that's a very good thing. A little more polish is needed, but I'm still very happy with it.

Thanks guys!

[LAnonHubbard]

Lovely

[johnnnnnnnnnnyfin]

Hi Alessandro ! what font do you use in this demo? i like it!

[AlessandroPortale]

It is the "default" mono spaced font on OSX. If I remember correctly, it is called "Monaco".

[gatoatigrado1]

iostream operators to create a list? that's so hacky... c++ needs to go.

[aribenzane]

Welcome to 2009.

[vongodric]

Sorry - left toolbar.

[Danny77uk]

By IDE, I'm talking about QtCreater. QT Designer is the existing UI tool.

Also Qt is not a 'langauge' - it is a C++ framework.

[FusionNinjin]

i tought Qt was mere a libery pack :s

[Danny77uk]

There is a big difference between liking a language and liking an IDE. I love Qt, but not this IDE.

[vongodric]

This IDE is terrible. It has some very nice (I'd even say innovative) ideas, but it fails miserably over-all. Utter disregard to standard leyout ( no tabbed interface, hardcoded right-hand toolbar that cannot be moved or hidden), project is given as a single tree - no option of grouping files logically... They expect everyone to use shortcuts and other hacks to navigate around...

Hope they will reconsider for the next version... Till then I'll keep clear of it.

[Danny77uk]

Agreed.

[cyborgtroy]

I'm more of a terminal + text editor guy. I miss the autocomplete stuff, but I can't seem to find an IDE that I don't hate.

[Norbert2]

After all these years I finally see that I used to spell and pronounce Qt incorrectly. I always used QT (queue tea) instead of Qt (cute). It's probably because I never really looked into it and always pick GTK+. I may give this creator a shot, although I'll first wait and see how complete and bug free it is. Glade has been under development for years and is now v3.4.1, this one just came out as v1.0.

[Danny77uk]

I don't know anyone who actually refers to it as cute!

[clith]

Ya! Everyone I know outside of Qt Software pronounces it as "cue tee". Interesting.

[eduardonogales]

I'll begin the exploration here

[RealNC]

I'll stick to KDevelop for now :P

[Danny77uk]

I've been playing with the mac version. It is AWFUL. It crashes constantly and the all-in-one interface might be ok on Windows but on OSX it feels clumsy and claustrophobic, especially the designer. Also the auto-complete does not work well and there are issues with the split views and multiple projects. I'm going to stick with XCode, even if it does mean having to rebuild the project every time I add a new class. I hope they improve it and I love QT but this thing isn't worth it.

[tubazza123]

già l'accento di "i am" fa capire che il tipo è italiano, il nome poi toglie ogni dubbio!

sarebbe bello avere anche un video direttamente in italiano per chi non capisce bene l'inglese ;)

[alessiodf]

Grandissimo!! :D Era l'ultima cosa che mancava alle qt!

[stesch]

And what's the cost of Qt? They don't mention any price on their website.

[deltaphc]

If you're doing open-source development, it's free of charge. For commercial development, you'll have to contact them for pricing details.

[nikhilesh93]

Its gonna be LGPL soon!

[montoya1411]

Wow, uno sviluppatore Qt italiano! Sono contento.