@aha_1980 said in Qt-Creator: output messages on a per-file-compile basis?: that this will break error parsing Errors??? I don't make errors! lol Yeah, that'd be a real problem. Hm. Well, perhaps it's just impractical on every level with the versions I am using. I really appreciate your taking the time to respond. Cheers!

@Pataruutu Hi the video you link is QML :) So its its the reason it looks differently. The one you call ugly is QWidgets and it uses the default look of the platform. It seems you can use QML with pyt http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/qml.html

Hi and welcome to devnet, Qt Creator should auto detect the compiler for you. However what usually happens is that people install Visual Studio without checking the C++ option during installation thus they have a VS environment but nothing to build C++ code. You should first check that. Note that you also need to install the debugger separately. The one coming with VS is "internal" and cannot be used by other applications.