It’s been a few weeks since the Beta. It has been a rather disappointing start of the summer here in Berlin, with only one really sunny weekend. This means no excuses for escaping the office for a jump into the water or grabbing an ice-cold beer. Instead, we’ve seized the time well. How? By polishing Qt Creator, resulting in 1038 commits since the beta release. The community feedback has been very valuable in this.
We also made sure that Creator works hand-in-hand with the Nokia Qt SDK, a release candidate of which has also been released today. One effect is that debugging on the Nokia N8, the first Symbian-based Nokia phone shipping with Qt, does now work. Another focus of this release is the documentation, which has been greatly improved to cover a lot more aspects of Qt Creator and how to develop with it. Also, thanks to continous polishing, the New and Option dialogs now look much cleaner.
But we also had to make a tough decision: Qt Quick support is now disabled by default, because Qt 4.7 will not be out by the time we want to release Qt Creator 2.0. This means Qt Creator will come without Qt Quick functionality, even though loading Qt Quick files and projects is still possible. But do not fear: After 2.0 has been released, we will work on a Qt Quick enabled version and we will bring back Qt Quick enabled nightly build as soon as possible. Read more in the separate blog post. Also, if you desperately want it back for 2.0 already, you can build Qt Creator yourself and enable the QML support by exporting QTCREATOR_WITH_QML before running qmake. We really hope you will enjoy testing this release candidate. If you still find obstacles or bugs, please do not hesitate to report them at our bug tracker.
Finally, if you want to see Qt Creator and the Nokia Qt SDK release candidates in action, don’t hesitate to visit our booth at LinuxTag in Berlin this week and attend our presentations on the the Nokia Qt SDK and Qt Quick!
Download the Qt Creator 2.0.0 RC1 here
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I may be nitpicking a bit here. But with so many categories in the options dialog, maybe sort them by names will make looking for options easier?
Hm, I’ve never seen an app that sorts the preferences alphabetically, I think
Did you see the “Filter” line edit on top, btw? It is even able to filter for text *inside* the preference panels.
indeed, no need for sorting, gotta love that filter
crazy idea: collect anonymous usage statistics (opt-in) and put the least used ones at the bottom =)
Qt creator will have to support the global menu bar, if it is still meant to target Linux. I see nearly everyone around with an Ubuntu already using this feature (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/global_menu).
Global menubar is broken-by-design, just because Apple uses is not an excuse for everybody to use it. eeww.
Qt creator will have to support raising little kittens, if it is still meant to target Linux. I see nearly everyone around with an Ubuntu visiting http://icanhascheezburger.com.
@Frank Mertens: This is about productivity, not Th3 K3w1 F3aTuя of the day. I have a hard time to believe that the target audience of an IDE uses menu bars on a regular base, let alone cares much where they are.
The filter will work. Thanks.
How about fixing this http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-833 ? It’s really annoying when I open files from other source. The text are all mis-aligned.
@stephenju:
Yes, the remaining issues in the Mac version of Qt Creator, related to using the Cocoa based Qt are unfortunate.
That’s one of the downsides of us releasing Qt Creator 2.0 before Qt 4.7, lets see that more of the remaining things are fixed either till Qt Creator 2.0, or at least till Qt 4.7 and the Qt Creator 2.1 release. Luckily we put some more resources on our Qt Mac team during the last year, so we were able to get to this overall quite usable state at least
@Frank: feel free to fill a suggestion for *Qt* on bugreports.qt.nokia.com, or vote on an existing one
nice integration with Gnome apps
it looks like one.
@Tomaz Canabrava:
Fitt’s Law. Look it up. The global menu bar is quicker to access because the user need only drag to the upper extent of the screen with little thought. Menus-in windows requires more accuracy and thought.
just because Microsoft uses is not an excuse for everybody to use it. eeww.
It looks great and full of features. From a purely aesthetic point of view, however, you need to update some of your icons (in the menus, etc). Some are of lower quality than others. The eye needs its candy too…
Is special support really needed? I thought it works also with common applications that are using a normal menu.
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@Danny
Made so much sense on the 9″ Mac Classic. Makes no sense that the menu for a little window at the bottom right of my monitor is almost 30″ away.
Hm. After a couple of days of 2.0.80 snapshots which I assume will become 2.1, the latest ones are 1.3.85. This is beyond confusing. I thought 2.0.0 source tree has updated the version number to match its intended release?
If the purpose of snapshots is to give us a chance to help testing, maybe it’s a good idea to let us know exactly what we are testing?
Thank you for this, but … could you please try to have the source buildable on (open)solaris ? currently it is really a pain to build it from source, I don’t ask a pkg file, just ensure that it can compile (with dbx support …. if I can add a request). Thank you. Qt rocks but I’m stick with creator 1 which is great but perfectible.
I’d like to see the possibility to have syntax colouring for user-defined types.
@Danny – Screw fitts. I can’t stand a global menu bar – one of the reasons I rarely work on a mac (add Ubuntu to that list if it’s moving to a global menu bar.)
Hi,
Nice product but what could be really nice is to integrate features developed for QtCreator inside Qt, I mean ActionManager, Preferences, Contexts, ect…
Many applications needs the same. (I’m actually trying to extract the ActionManager code….)
At least, if the coreplugin could be more generic it could be a great basis for a new program!
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