Getting a .pro file to work for both Visual Studio 2008 and Qt Creator

scarleton

Why is it sometime folks cannot see the obvious! It is working fine, the error message I get from running it is my applications obscure message that the correct command line parameters where not passed in. Now to figure out how to set command line options for debugging!

giesbert

For QtCreator:

Go to Projects --> run settings --> add the parameters you need :-)

For MSVS

Go To vcproj properties --> debug --> add the command line parameters

vcsala

Gerolf, maybe it is funny, but after several months developing on Qt, few days ago I have started to write a command line tool and it took me several hours to find this setting in Qt Creator... :)

giesbert

I also looked longer for those options the first time. also how to change the project build parameters :-)

goetz

[quote author="scarleton" date="1292697100"]Why is it sometime folks cannot see the obvious! It is working fine, the error message I get from running it is my applications obscure message that the correct command line parameters where not passed in. Now to figure out how to set command line options for debugging![/quote]

Sorry, I cannot see any kind of error message. At worst some compiler warnings.

tobias.hunger

Scarleton, VCsala: Any ideas for a better place to put those settings? I thought the place they are now is rather obvious...

vcsala

After all it is obvious, it was my fault, as I was developing in different environments for years and it took some time to regain my aquaintance with these kind of IDE tools.

scarleton

[quote author="Tobias Hunger" date="1292707921"]Scarleton, VCsala: Any ideas for a better place to put those settings? I thought the place they are now is rather obvious...[/quote]Once I started to really look for it, it was obvious. But then I am coming from the Visual Studio world. The very first place I looked for it was by right clicking on the very root of the solution tree and looked for Project Settings.

What would be cool is if that option exists and when the user clicked on it that way, the <Projects> button on the left would flash as it became active to draw folks attention to it. Hopefully one or two times folks would get with the program.

Sam

giesbert

That's right for us MSVS people. But how is it for KDE or other IDEs?
Personally, I like context menus and options there and it could help to have an additional entry forwarding to the projects page, yes.

tobias.hunger

scarleton: I actually like that idea:-) I'll look into it once I find some time to do so. I am currently a bit busy refactoring some code and want to get that done first.

Maybe you could file your suggestion in our "issue tracker":http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/ so it won't be forgotten?

vcsala

[quote author="Gerolf Reinwardt" date="1292747656"]Personally, I like context menus and options there and it could help to have an additional entry forwarding to the projects page, yes.[/quote]

Exactly, this is what I missed at the beginning, right clicking on a project and reach all related properties.

goetz

+1 for a menu entry "Go to project settings" which does switch to the project view of creator and switches there to the currently selected project.

tobias.hunger

Create an entry in the bug tracker and vote for it instead of going "+1" here...

vsorokin

Tobias Hunger, I do it. Link: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-3419

giesbert

ok, voted for it.

vcsala

I have voted on it.

scarleton

I also throw in my vote:)

there is another thread I started, which resulted in feature request. Maybe it is something you would like some votes, too:

http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/2606/

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-3420