Plugin that adds tabs to QtCreator

tobias.hunger

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.

crystalidea

It's a rhetorical question but why does Visual Studio support tabs...
in 1920x1080 I have 12-14 visible tabs there
it's convenient to see the list of currently opened files
tab bar height in VS is about 16px

AlGrenadine

Hi
Does not seem to work with QTCreator 3.2, even after having edited TabbedEditor.pluginspec file i get "D:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\lib\qtcreator\plugins\TabbedEditor.dll: Cannot load library"

tallia1

Now if only you supported the Shift+Command+{arrowleft/arrowright} to switch the active tab left right that would be awesome. Note this is the same shortcuts used by Terminal and Finder tabs!!

serpheroth

An updated version is available "here":https://github.com/serpheroth/qtcreator-tabbededitor-plugin. It can compile for QtCreator 3.2, also two shortcuts are added to switch to neighboring tabs. The shortcut keys can be modified in the QtCreator keyboard setting.

precompiled binaries for 64-bit QtCreator 3.2 in Linux, Windows and Mac, are available "here":https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9l4mex549dm4fri/AAB1PiTkKnS9bRhuB9_59cxia?dl=0. If you are using 32-bit version of QtCreator, you will need to compile from source.

tallia1

Sperpheroth I am not sure this is usable. I downloaded the OSX precompile and the updated QtCreator 3.2. First I had to change these to:

@
<dependencyList>
<dependency name="Core" version="3.2.0"/>
<dependency name="TextEditor" version="3.2.0"/>
</dependencyList>
@

Then I still got these errors (hinting at the fact that the dylib name is somehow corrupted with your username):

@
/Applications/Qt Creator.app/Contents/PlugIns/TabbedEditor/libTabbedEditor.dylib: Cannot load library /Applications/Qt Creator.app/Contents/PlugIns/TabbedEditor/libTabbedEditor.dylib: (dlopen(/Applications/Qt Creator.app/Contents/PlugIns/TabbedEditor/libTabbedEditor.dylib, 5): Library not loaded: /Users/dj/Qt5.3.2/5.3/clang_64/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets
Referenced from: /Applications/Qt Creator.app/Contents/PlugIns/TabbedEditor/libTabbedEditor.dylib
Reason: image not found)
@

and this is how you fix it:

@
install_name_tool -change "/Users/dj/Qt5.3.2/5.3/clang_64/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets" @rpath/Frameworks/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets libTabbedEditor.dylib
install_name_tool -change "/Users/dj/Qt5.3.2/5.3/clang_64/lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui" @rpath/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui libTabbedEditor.dylib
install_name_tool -change "/Users/dj/Qt5.3.2/5.3/clang_64/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore" @rpath/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore libTabbedEditor.dylib
install_name_tool -change "/Users/dj/Qt5.3.2/5.3/clang_64/lib/QtConcurrent.framework/Versions/5/QtConcurrent" @rpath/Frameworks/QtConcurrent.framework/Versions/5/QtConcurrent libTabbedEditor.dylib
@

mugi_luffy

@tallia1
would appreciate it if you could explain how to fix it for windows7 and Qt5.3.2.
trying to compile without any modifications yields among others the following errors for me:

\tabbededitorplugin.h:24: error: Plugin Metadata file "TabbedEditor.json" does not exist. Declaration will be ignored
\tabbededitorplugin.h:6: error: C1083: Cannot open include file: 'extensionsystem/iplugin.h': No such file or directory

\tabsforeditorswidget.cpp:4: error: C1083: Cannot open include file: 'coreplugin/actionmanager/actionmanager.h': No such file or directory

Thanks a lot

tallia1

I know nothing about windows, sorry.

nikitablack

Hello. I'm very interested in this plugin. Unfortunately, the precompiled files doesn't work and I don't know how to build from the source, I have the same error:

tabbededitorplugin.h:24: error: Plugin Metadata file “TabbedEditor.json” does not exist. Declaration will be ignored
\tabbededitorplugin.h:6: error: C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘extensionsystem/iplugin.h’: No such file or directory .bq

I don't have iplugin.h on my machine. And what is TabbedEditor.json, where can I find it?

nikitablack

Hello. I'm very interested in this plugin. Unfortunately, the precompiled files doesn't work and I don't know how to build from the source, I have the same error:

tabbededitorplugin.h:24: error: Plugin Metadata file “TabbedEditor.json” does not exist. Declaration will be ignored
\tabbededitorplugin.h:6: error: C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘extensionsystem/iplugin.h’: No such file or directory .bq

I don't have iplugin.h on my machine. And what is TabbedEditor.json, where can I find it?

midi-pascal

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 directory

All 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.

midi-pascal

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 directory

All 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.

midi-pascal

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!

midi-pascal

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!

bernhardberger

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..

bernhardberger

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..

midi-pascal

@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 :-)

midi-pascal

@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 :-)

bernhardberger

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..

bernhardberger

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..