Plugin that adds tabs to QtCreator
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The plugin in its original version does not work for Creator 3.x
You have to download the fork from github as indicated by Sperpheroth in an earlier post in this thread.
For me it works perfectly (although with its knowned flaws).
As a supplemental note, you must download the Creator sources and build it locally too to be able to build the plugin itself, and set two build environment variables (within Creator itself) to build it:
Set QTC_BUILD to the path of the Creator build directory
Set QTC_SOURCE to the path of the Creator sources directoryAll this because the plugin format changed completely from Creator 2.x to 3.x.
I worked a bit on this plugin for Creator 3.3.0 and implemented the part to restore the tabs from the previous session on startup. Still testing it, though.
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The plugin sources for Qt Creator 3.3.0 with the last session restoration on startup are available here:
https://github.com/midi-pascal/qtcreator-tabbededitor-plugin
To build it (under Linux):- Download the sources
- Open the project within Qt Creator 3.3.0
- Set the two environment variables as I wrote in the previous post in the Project window, Build Environment (Details->Add)
- Build the plugin
- Locate libTabbedEditor.so
- Copy it to the Qt subdirectory: Tools/QtCreator/lib/qtcreator/plugins/
- Restart Creator
- Enjoy!
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The plugin sources for Qt Creator 3.3.0 with the last session restoration on startup are available here:
https://github.com/midi-pascal/qtcreator-tabbededitor-plugin
To build it (under Linux):- Download the sources
- Open the project within Qt Creator 3.3.0
- Set the two environment variables as I wrote in the previous post in the Project window, Build Environment (Details->Add)
- Build the plugin
- Locate libTabbedEditor.so
- Copy it to the Qt subdirectory: Tools/QtCreator/lib/qtcreator/plugins/
- Restart Creator
- Enjoy!
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Would someone be so kind to compile the tabbed editor plugin for me? QTC not having editor tabs really drives me nuts for years now.. unluckily I don't have any luck compiling it myself.. QtCreator 3.3 and on Windows..
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Would someone be so kind to compile the tabbed editor plugin for me? QTC not having editor tabs really drives me nuts for years now.. unluckily I don't have any luck compiling it myself.. QtCreator 3.3 and on Windows..
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@bernhardberg
Sorry, I cannot do that: I have no Windows box.
However, it could be a good idea to specify which Windows version you are using if you expect someone to do this for you :-)
Not sure a XP build would fit in a Windows 8 Qt Creator...Anyways I can certify the tabbed editor plugin is a major plus to Creator. I use it all day long and could not work without it now.
Hope someone will do this for you :-)
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@bernhardberg
Sorry, I cannot do that: I have no Windows box.
However, it could be a good idea to specify which Windows version you are using if you expect someone to do this for you :-)
Not sure a XP build would fit in a Windows 8 Qt Creator...Anyways I can certify the tabbed editor plugin is a major plus to Creator. I use it all day long and could not work without it now.
Hope someone will do this for you :-)
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whoops. It should read Windows 8 ;-) Yeah, as I said I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me a hand on this as I'm stuck on some questionable compile errors with Qt Creator and I actually would like to spend my limited free time on developing my OSS project rather than fix compile errors.. Editor Tabs would be just a very handy productivity enhancement as I think we all spend too much time browsing through open files rather than working..
I really don't get why Qt Creator doesn't support this ootb..
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whoops. It should read Windows 8 ;-) Yeah, as I said I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me a hand on this as I'm stuck on some questionable compile errors with Qt Creator and I actually would like to spend my limited free time on developing my OSS project rather than fix compile errors.. Editor Tabs would be just a very handy productivity enhancement as I think we all spend too much time browsing through open files rather than working..
I really don't get why Qt Creator doesn't support this ootb..
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The answer to you last question can be found in Qt Creator FAQ.
In short: they do not want!bq. Why does Qt Creator not use tabs for editors?
This question comes up from time to time, so we have considered it carefully. Here are our main reasons for not using tabs:
Tabs do not scale. They work fine if you have 5 to 6 editors open, they become cumbersome with 10, and if you need more horizontal space than the tab bar, the interface does not work at all.
Tabs do not adapt to your working set.
The common solution is to give the user the ability to reorder tabs. Now user has to manage tabs instead of writing code.
Tabs force you to limit the amount of open editors, because otherwise you get confused.
Consider the following use case: Developers want to switch editors.
In fact, developers do not want to switch editors, but might have to do so to accomplish their tasks. We need to figure out what the tasks are to provide developers with better ways to navigate while performing the tasks.I cannot agree with the last sentence "developpers do not want to switch editors" because YES! I want to switch editors :-).
That's why I put some time time implementing the the tabs restoration from the last session in the tabbed editor plugin.
Why not give the choice to the developper?
If you do not want tabs, do not get the plugin
If you want tabs, install the plugin and use itAnd most IDE's I know are tabbed editors, too!
But this is only my own opinion... :-( -
The answer to you last question can be found in Qt Creator FAQ.
In short: they do not want!bq. Why does Qt Creator not use tabs for editors?
This question comes up from time to time, so we have considered it carefully. Here are our main reasons for not using tabs:
Tabs do not scale. They work fine if you have 5 to 6 editors open, they become cumbersome with 10, and if you need more horizontal space than the tab bar, the interface does not work at all.
Tabs do not adapt to your working set.
The common solution is to give the user the ability to reorder tabs. Now user has to manage tabs instead of writing code.
Tabs force you to limit the amount of open editors, because otherwise you get confused.
Consider the following use case: Developers want to switch editors.
In fact, developers do not want to switch editors, but might have to do so to accomplish their tasks. We need to figure out what the tasks are to provide developers with better ways to navigate while performing the tasks.I cannot agree with the last sentence "developpers do not want to switch editors" because YES! I want to switch editors :-).
That's why I put some time time implementing the the tabs restoration from the last session in the tabbed editor plugin.
Why not give the choice to the developper?
If you do not want tabs, do not get the plugin
If you want tabs, install the plugin and use itAnd most IDE's I know are tabbed editors, too!
But this is only my own opinion... :-( -
Hi, this is old thread but i've been working with another tabbed editor plugin for several months and it does help and is very useful. Having such an option for those who prefer it is not a bad thing, IMHO.
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There is Ctrl-K, Ctrl-Tab, Alt-Left/Right, the open documents pane, the dropdown list in the editor toolbar, all allowing you to switch between open documents.
So why waste space on tabs? All the other ways actually work for more than 5 or so files.
@tobias.hunger Absolutely agree with Tobias. I usually arrange Windows' taskbar vertically on the left, so that more of the currently running programs ("tabs") could be visible at a time. So the already existing Qt creator opened documents viewer is far more convenient and as Tobias said space saving.
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Also I would prefer to have an option to show tabbar only above editor (right side of the projects/outline/etc sidebar).Plugin does not work properly with spitted views. It shows several tabs for the same files in different splits which is confusing, but I don't know a proper solution.
I just wanted to try this, but apparently it no longer works. Upon startup I get an error that dependencies couldn't be resolved: "Core(3.0.0)" and "TextEditor(3.0.0)". Sounds like it just needs to be brought up to date?
Thanks
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Also I would prefer to have an option to show tabbar only above editor (right side of the projects/outline/etc sidebar).Plugin does not work properly with spitted views. It shows several tabs for the same files in different splits which is confusing, but I don't know a proper solution.
I just wanted to try this, but apparently it no longer works. Upon startup I get an error that dependencies couldn't be resolved: "Core(3.0.0)" and "TextEditor(3.0.0)". Sounds like it just needs to be brought up to date?
Thanks
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it most likely need to be compiled with VS 2013.
