Qt Creator and other tools

@jeremy_k , @JKSH , thanks for your comments and observations. some good food for thought. I think this query can now be regarded as solved, since the originally proposed solution works.

same issue with QtCreator 15.0.0 and 17.0.0 on Windows 11 using either KIT 6.4.1 MSVC 2019 64bit or 6.9.1 MSVC 2022 64 bit quite problematic isn't it?!? how come oO can't debug properly anymore without @cristian-adam workaround... (on Windows)

@icebergenergy Let the QtCreator devs know via mailing list or implement the functionality yourself and submit the patch via gerrit or github.

@JasonWong you can join the Developing Qt with Agentic AI webinar. [image: 27fc6cf1-d5d8-4d87-99a1-ef3790e1e78e.jpg] I don't know if there is a Q&A section, but if there is, you can ask the question above.

Is this the same crash as https://forum.qt.io/topic/163072/unexpected-crash-when-using-custom-delegate-in-qcombobox ? Whatever OP might expect, it should not crash Creator if it does that!

@CrazyCarrot I think the SO guy was falsely imagining or confusing with VS! Without getting into it, I found VS had more features in it than Qt Creator. It is just possible that Creator's Message box, which I believe appears for the "tracepoint", passes that on "raw" to the underlying debugger, so perhaps some gdb syntax for it would work with gdb debugger or if there is any equivalent for MSVC, but I don't know and wouldn't hold my breath.

I know this is an old thread, but someone might find this helpful: (Qt Creator 17 on Mac) Press Cmd+T for the selection dialog. Once it pops up, hold Cmd and press T to cycle through your open projects. Release Cmd and the selected project is activated and the dialog disappears. Note: The dialog has three columns Project, Deploy, Run. For the above to work the column Project has to be active (dark selection field there). It looks like that each time you start Qt Creator the active column will be Deploy. In that case just click once a project name or use arrow keys to activate the Project column, and from that time it should work again (until you quit Qt Creator).

@hackerturtle 00007635 5.66594458 [18472] qtc.projectexplorer.toolchain.msvc: readEnvironmentSetting: "call \"D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvarsall.bat\" x86" "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /D /E:ON /V:ON /c C:\\Users\\21421\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\QtCreator-UTRrUJ\\cwmuNx.bat" Env: 79 00007636 5.66596460 [18472] qtc.utils.process: Process 30 starting (blocking without event loop): C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /D /E:ON /V:ON /c C:\Users\21421\AppData\Local\Temp\QtCreator-UTRrUJ\cwmuNx.bat 00007637 5.67927456 [18472] qtc.projectexplorer.toolchain.msvc: No updates for "Visual Studio Community 2022 17.14.36401.2 (x86)" It has to do with the Qt Creator's way of checking if the Visual C++ environment has been changed. This shouldn't trigger any pop-up, but something in your environment causes this behavior.

Indeed! As soon as I killed the adb processes, the freezes stopped immediately. Thanks a lot, you really saved my day!

@JonB said in Qt Creator editor: Can we insert a column of sequential numbers?: Purely ooi, why does it change from cardinal words to ordinal ones after SEVENTH? :) Because: @cristian-adam said in Qt Creator editor: Can we insert a column of sequential numbers?: This works with ... AI :))

I've documented the experience at https://cristianadam.eu/20250817/from-llama-dot-vim-to-qt-creator-using-ai/ So if somebody wants to port any plugin from https://vimawesome.com/ they could do it using ... AI! 😅

I ended up cloning the latest version from github: git clone https://github.com/qt/qtbase then running cmake install with the cmake variables I need like vulkan

You need to update your gdb, not the whole toolchain. See https://www.qt.io/blog/mingw-and-side-by-side-manifests for details.

Which type of project are you trying to use? C++ or Python? At https://forum.qt.io/topic/158263/line-0-the-design-mode-requires-a-valid-qt-kit there a similar case.

@sbela I reported the issue, you can vote: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-33302

@breeze0801 has been fixed now. Will be part of Qt Creator 17.0.1. You can get a snapshot the next days from https://download.qt.io/snapshots/qtcreator/17.0/17.0.1/ Thank you for reporting, your message triggered this fix!

@SGaist Yes,it works👍

@OldRoly Qt Creator is just a standalone IDE, it does not bring any Qt packages with it for you to use to build your own programs, technically it could be used as e.g. a text editor without anything to do with Qt development (though you would not want to). I don't know why you ask for the "complete package" and then mark this topic as Solved with no further comment. To build your own code you need to fetch some of the distro packages. I can't recall just what they are called, and it can vary from distro to distro or release to release, but you need to type something like sudo apt install qt and then press the Tab key once or twice to see the offered completions. You will probably want things starting from qt6 and then Tab, there something like qt6-dev with most of what you will want? You can Google for what exactly the names are and what might be wanted, but as I say the names change so it may not be accurate for current your distro.

@peblus hi, Your link is the correct one :-)