Qt Creator and other tools

@dencla You need to create and add a ressource file to your project. In the ressource file you can add all the icons. After that, they will be available in the designer as well. for more information , check this https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/resources.html

The issue is tracked at https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-32319

I finally found some more logs from Qtcreator. Just the terminal ones XD

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@Mahdir2111 That doesn't address any of the questions. Up to you.

What has QtCreator to do with the Qt version you want to use for compiling? It's just an IDE...

@dencla Only if you follow Creating Custom Widgets for Qt Widgets Designer.

The code above was just my attempt to create a minimal reproducible example because I had this problem with all of my 3 programs which are all pretty large and I couldn't come up with a small program that had the same issue other than this silly example.

The dock widget, however, refers to one of my actual programs. That is, the problem with all 3 was the QML debugger being enabled and on top of that one of the programs needed the dock widget closed. I just thought I'd write it down in case someone has a similar problem and finds this post.

After trying to change the layout configuration for those shortcuts without result, I found a workaround by using the up and down keys from the numeric pad of the keyboard, and it works, so I will use that on this machine.

Hi and welcome to devnet,

You might want to make a feature request for that suggestion.

I have similar problems:
autocompletion works with user defined classes, but not with Qt classes.
Following some google search I have tried playing around with disabling and enabling the clang tools plugin. This did not change the autocompletion's behaviour.

I remember that autocompletion worked very smoothly with Qt Creator 4, which I have been using for a very long time .
I don't know exactly, when it stopped working.

After much back and forth, I finally figured out how to debug QML code using the current QT Visual Studio tools with CMake + Qt + Visual Studio IDE. First, if you have a project built with CMake + Qt, open the root directory of your project using the "Open Folder" method in Visual Studio 2022, and select the CMakeLists.txt file. At this point, Visual Studio 2022 IDE will create CMakePresets.json and CMakeUserPresets.json for you based on the QT Visual Studio tools.

At this stage, you can only modify CMakeUserPresets.json to configure the dependencies required for building your project, ensuring that your project can be successfully built. Once the build is successful, you can directly press F5 to start debugging.

I hope the method I discovered can help those who have this need.....

There is another plugin that does what you expect: https://github.com/vivaladav/SIGBUILD

A Qt Creator plugin to get notified when your builds terminate and to track their stats.

Project Status

Currently the plugin is usable and the project is under development with regular releases to update it to the latest major version of Qt Creator.

People who want to start to use SIGBUILD need to build it from scratch following the instruction in the Development section.

Because of the current status of the project, it's guaranteed only that SIGBUILD will work >with the latest version of Qt Creator. Previous versions are likely to work too, but they are >not officially supported, so please do not create issues for them.

Current features Systray notifications Audio notifications Latest build info Session log Full Qt Creator options

Would it be acceptable to re-post the "update" ?
Upon further research I have found than the failing project ( all in 5.15 ) is actually part of subdir project,
and my guess is that that is why it worlds by itself but fails when added as subdir.
The "bluetooth.pro" "main" suproject actually consist of two more sub protects.

All of them are still "only" in 5.15 - no Qt 6 at all

Agreed that some screen elements can look small on a 4K monitor, but since you're spending all of your workdays in Qt Creator, eventually you'll learn all the keyboard shortcuts and perhaps introduce some of your own (at least I have).

By then you'll permanently hide the menu with Ctrl+Alt+M and don't mind small-sized elements on the screen because they're fixed/static and you know them very well by heart anyway. My own C++ code, of course, that needs to visible and some days I'll increase the font size :-)

@Elerence-Hooke

Not 100% sure for Qt DesignStudio but also with QtCreator most UI elements are only available through code as just a few are selectable from QtCreator's Widget toolbox. Menus like QMenu is not one of them.