Does QtCreator support code thumbnail like Kate or VS2022?

goldenhawking

Hello amigo, does QtCreator support code thumbnail like this (KDE Kate):

There is a thumbnail display of the code on the scroll bar, that allows you to roughly see the density and format of the code.

cristian-adam

I've forked an packaged the 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚙 Qt Creator plugin at https://github.com/cristianadam/qt-creator-minimap 🎉

JonB

@goldenhawking
No. Not OOB, no idea whether you could/someone has written an add-in for this.

cristian-adam

I was able to find two options:

Please feel free to make a suggestion at https://bugreports.qt.io/

cristian-adam

Please feel free to make a suggestion at https://bugreports.qt.io/

I've created a feature request at [QTCREATORBUG-29177] Minimap support - Qt Bug Tracker

goldenhawking

Thanks. Best wishes for the Qt develop team, who created an elegant development framework for everyone.

cristian-adam

I've forked an packaged the 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚙 Qt Creator plugin at https://github.com/cristianadam/qt-creator-minimap 🎉

goldenhawking

I just checked it out , for msys2-qt users:

for msys2 UCRT-64 as an example:

git clone https://github.com/cristianadam/qt-creator-minimap
pacman -S ucrt64/mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-qt-creator-devel
cd qt-creator-minimap/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
cmake --build .
cp ./lib/qtcreator/plugins/libMinimapPlugin* /ucrt64/lib/qtcreator/plugins/