The end of the year is usually a time where people reflect on the past, think back, and drink a lot of beer/wine/apple juice in the process. When I do that now (ah, no beer or wine though), I can only say: Wow. What a year.
Qt went LGPL, Qt Creator 1.0 released, the source repositories went public on qt.gitorious.org opening new possibilities for contribution and collaboration, the new public bugtracker was established, and now Qt Creator already comes in version 1.3 (together with Qt 4.6), with lots of changes, improvements and extensions to the original 1.0 release. And that’s only the Qt Creator centric view 
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So to wrap this amazing year up, we today released Qt Creator 1.3.0, with a rather impressive list of features:
- Experimental support for development of Qt for Symbian applications
- First refactorings:
- Renaming symbols
- Find usages of symbols
- Color schemes for the editors:
- Automatic matching of brackets and quotes:
- Support for the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler tool chain for cmake projects
- Better support for small screen sizes
- Locator filter for symbols in the current document
- Many more
Of course, we haven’t been resting in the last few days, polishing Qt Creator for the final release: Since the release candidate 18 little fixes went in, plus updated translations, like the French one that was blogged about in a different post. As mentioned in the blog, translating Qt Creator is not something you’d do on a friday afternoon. Great many thanks to all who put their precious time into making our beloved software even easier to use .
Download Qt Creator 1.3 or the 2009.05 SDK (includes Qt 4.6.0 and MinGW 4.4) from here. If you prefer to use the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler, get the new Qt for Visual Studio 2008 Open Source package.
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Congratulations! Qt Creator is a superb product and a joy to use. You should all feel very proud of yourselves.
Qt Creator is one of most amazing projects. I always feel happy, when install new version, because there are some new useful features.
Thank you guys.
Great software, but debugging still needs some improvements.
“Debugging still need some improvements” is hard to translate into work items. At the very least you should specify what you think needs improvement. If you could spare the time you could maybe even give a hint on _how_ you think it could be improved.
Impressive! Congratulations!
Is it possible to have a possibility of changing UI language from Tools option in future releases?
You’ve made a great product!!! My only suggestion is to make it support more text editor colors for methods, functions, local variables, … like eclipse CDT.
Congrats for a good product. Debugging is still needs some improvement.
@amir.zili: “Debugging still need some improvements” is hard to translate into work items. At the very least you should specify what you think needs improvement. If you could spare the time you could maybe even give a hint on _how_ you think it could be improved.
“Debugging still need some improvements” – check Visual C# debugger (ok I know it’s not C++) but the gap is huge.
Really like this and I’m using it as the main IDE for my 2nd year programming class. One debugging feature that would really help is variable values as tool tips in the source code window. I was really fond of that that feature in Visual Studio IDE
@Academic Sam: That feature is in QtCreator, but by default turned off. Go to ‘Tools->Options->Debugger->Common’, enable ‘Use tooltips in main editor while debugging’ and enjoy
“Is it possible to have a possibility of changing UI language from Tools option in future releases?”
Is there ANY clean way to change the UI language without changing OS settings?
After my initial run with Qt Creator, I am impressed. The developers have made a wonderful open-source IDE. Well done! I’m an old-school hardcore vim user. FakeVim is nice. But, I am hesitant to make the switch to Qt Creator. I’ve spent years building up vim (.vimrc and etc.) to be an IDE. I see that vim is very popular in Trolltech (3rd place in your competition). Have you seen a steady migration to Qt Creator from vim/emacs in-house?
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