Qt Creator - no highlighting for ifdef blocks

[sierdzio]

I'm currently working on an application, that due to it's nature requires quite a lot of ifdefs in the code. I'm developing on Kubuntu, with Qt Creator using Kate's syntax highlighting.

The problem is that inside ifdef blocks the code is grayed-out. I understand that this might be a good feature for some people that want to omit parts of the code that are not currently defined, but I would like to have highlighting everywhere. Is it possible to change this behaviour? I have looked through QtC's options, but found none. As a temporal hack, I simply comment the ifdefs out during my coding, but it's not very elegant or useful.

[ken536]

I don't know how to make QT do it like you want to, but you can do this:

• Only use #ifdef (not #else)
• Create a new build configuration where you define al those.
• Switch when you build to your normal configuration.

[sierdzio]

Doesn't seem to be working. But it looks like a nice idea :)

[ken536]

using DEFINES+=... in your QMake additional arguments line?

[sierdzio]

ah, bingo, that did it! Thanks a lot!