QtCreator and multiple monitors
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[quote author="GordonSchumacher" date="1291820857"]Hmm... ==sigh== if only I could create an extra ten or twelve hours a day, or not need to sleep or something, this would all be so much easier :)[/quote]
Here is a book I enjoyed about a future where some people don't need sleep: "Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress":http://www.amazon.com/Beggars-Spain-Nancy-Kress/dp/0060733489
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Just to make sure this issue isn't forgotten. Support for dual-head currently is restricted to QtAssistant on second monitor and for debugging at least the stack trace and variable watch.
Why not let us split off editors (maybe with own hierarchy/file/project sidebar), too?Another issue at least on linux: The undocked windows don't have proper frames, they're just kind of flying white boxes which don't properly interact with the window manager like e.g. QMainWindows. Further, and this is most annoying, column widths are obviously not saved. So I have my right screen filled with stack trace and variable watch, yet, when I restart QtCreator, the columns are smashed to the left border where little to nothing is readable (except in the last column, that's stretched over 80% of the screen – great). So I have to resize them every time. Isn't restoring column layout kind of standard in this century ;)?
//EDIT: Oh yes, and I love QtCreator. The add to implementation refactoring is very handy to now also have in QtCreator.
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I'm unsure if that helps, but i do the following to my Qt Creator if i wish to use 2 displays to edit single project:
"split side by side":http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4005/twodisplay.jpg
As for documentation, I'd suggested openning the second instance of creator. -
[quote author="RaubTieR" date="1333972955"]I'm unsure if that helps, but i do the following to my Qt Creator if i wish to use 2 displays to edit single project:
"split side by side":http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4005/twodisplay.jpg[/quote]I've had that idea, too. Unfortunately, it gets messed up completely when restarting QtCreator. It opens the window on the right monitor, stretching into nirvana to the right.
I still can't believe making this possible should be such a big issue for someone who's familiar with QtCreator code, especially because all the mechanisms for synchronizing and maintaining multiple editors on one file are already in place (see Ctrl+E,3)! All that needs to be done is have such an editor not in a splitter-ish layout but in a new QMainWindow... nothing fancy.
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[quote author="DerManu" date="1333988284"][quote author="RaubTieR" date="1333972955"]I'm unsure if that helps, but i do the following to my Qt Creator if i wish to use 2 displays to edit single project:
"split side by side":http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4005/twodisplay.jpg[/quote]I've had that idea, too. Unfortunately, it gets messed up completely when restarting QtCreator. It opens the window on the right monitor, stretching into nirvana to the right.
I still can't believe making this possible should be such a big issue for someone who's familiar with QtCreator code.[/quote]
The other problem with the splitter approach is that it doesn't allow you to rearrange the "windows" independently. As I often have four or five windows open at a time, not being able to layer them over each other and move them around at will is a big drawback. I do like the xCode approach though - it has one main window, which can be split similarly to QtCreator, but if you double click on a file rather than single-clicking (which would be another nice thing to get in creator - the ability to load files with a single click) it opens a new window for that file. -
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.
