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    florent.revelut
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    If you want to split the file names and their location, you can use
    @
    VPATH += ./src
    SOURCES += files1.cpp file2.cpp
    @

    VPATH is somehow the equivalent for source files of nclude path for makefiles.

    You can have a look at "qmake doc":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qmake-variable-reference.html#vpath

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      raulgd
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      @florent.revelut - cool thanks! that's almost what I need, too bad that Qt Creator still shows me the src and include as folders in the "sources" and "headers" section in the project tree, it would be nice if Qt Creator could dismiss that and use the vpath paths as root folders for sources.

      Thanks!

      Raul Guerrero
      http://jimi.mx

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        andre
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        [quote author="Raul" date="1301293630"]@florent.revelut - cool thanks! that's almost what I need, too bad that Qt Creator still shows me the src and include as folders in the "sources" and "headers" section in the project tree, it would be nice if Qt Creator could dismiss that and use the vpath paths as root folders for sources.

        Thanks![/quote]

        Hmmm... no thanks to that feature, if you ask me. I actually like that the separation into folders is preserved. Perhaps we organize our projects in different ways, but for me Creator just putting them on the same level would be going backwards.

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          florent.revelut
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          André : well, I don't agree 100% percent with you.

          Personnally, I like when I can split physical organisation and logical organisation.

          Physical organisation has to deal with constraint, dependencies, configuration management (e.g. some part of code delivered by another team, from open source project, from other repository).

          Logical organisation is how you want to display it in your UI, which is "human related"

          Exemple:

          • you can organise your code per layer in terms of configuration management (applicative, c++, C/ASM)
          • you want to display your code per feature (i.e. per vertical slices of the layer)

          Sometime, having 1 sub-project per folder just messes around with your ide.

          From my point of view, he cleanest is to have a way to split representation from build, a bit like cmake allows to do it.

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            giesbert
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            I agree that this would be a nice feature.
            I use it a lot in MSVS, to organize the used files in logical groups.

            Nokia Certified Qt Specialist.
            Programming Is Like Sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)

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              mzimmers
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              I can't believe I haven't had to ask this yet, but...

              ...what's the recommended technique for adding a directory to the header path? I want to start using the QDeclarativeView.h file, but my makefile doesn't know where to find it. Do I alter my UNIX $PATH variable? Manually edit the .pro file? Change some settings that I currently can't seem to find?

              Thanks.

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                goetz
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                mzimmers: add to your .pro file:

                @QT += declarative@

                http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                  andre
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                  You need to edit the .pro file to add the declarative module to your project. Then the relevant headers will also be found.

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                    mzimmers
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                    Thanks, guys. A very minor follow-up question: is there a convention for the ordering of stuff in the .pro file? In other words, is there a particular place I "should" put this line?

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                      andre
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                      Near the top, but that is just me I guess.

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