QtCreator and multiple monitors
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It surprises me that for such a well-done modern IDE QtCreator still doesn't support multiple monitors. Currently you can have detached help - but that's not enough. I'd like to be able to tear out the editors in separate windows and rearrange them any way I want. Both Eclipse and VS support this in some manner - but I don't want to use Eclipse or VS! I just checked the (very old) open issue on this https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-640 - feel free to vote it up.
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@bmanc it's seems that will not have very soon full multiple monitor suport.
One of the problem is when you have to edit 2-3-4 files at the same time. The split is not a good ideea (in my case I have a laptop with a display of 1366x768 and one external monitor with a resolution of 1280x1024).
I think that is much simpler to make edit windows external. Opening a new qtcreator session have too many inconvenients... -
@bolovan I'm not sure what you meant, so I'm just clarifying.
Both support Eclipse and VS support tearing the edit windows out to make them external. Well... with eclipse you have to tell it to open another "parent" window and drop the edit window into that, but it gives you the same effect.
Nobody wants another QtCreator session - it doesn't even work anyway since the same project can't be open in two sessions.
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Just do multiple monitor logic like in Visual Studio. Then you double click on source that already opened just select for active window there source already openned. And look in Visual Studio each new window can contain several openned sources.
BTW Why Devs so hate tabbed interface that have such a great IDE's like: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio? Why you create bicycle with square wheels?
BTW 2 Later then i be at home i'll try to show by screenshots what i mean.
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Multi-window support was introduced a few months ago: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/07/11/qt-creator-2-8-0-released/
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Moving the different debugger views around works beautifully but I can't for the life of me figure out how to move or detach the bottom panel that displays Application or Compiler output? How come they are handled differently?
The Help window seems locked in the same way, although here I found there's a special option you can enable in the Options dialog to detach it. I failed to find such an option for the lower pane.
Compiler/Application output is something that's usually important enough for me to have visible all the time, but I hate it having to eat up vertical space from my code editor window, when I have three monitors worth of screen space to lay everything out across.
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@biij5698 Go to menu "Window" and select "Open in new Window". Then you can use multiple windows and multiple monitors.
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I cannot believe it. We have middle of 2020 and Qt Creator is still with its design stuck in 1990 with absolutely no inclination to provide fully fledged multi-monitor support.
Compared the quality of life when working with Visual Studio Qt Creator simply depresses me.
