Qt Creator enable Beautifier

[dxsooo]

Hi, friends
I use Qt Creator 4.3.1 in my Mac. But when I enable Beautifier by checking "About Plugins"->"Beautifier", nothing change after restarting Qt Creator.

BTW, there is always a red bar in front of Beautifier option, does it matter ? Or how can I enable Beautifier?

Thanks a lot

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Did you install at least one of the tools listed in the documentation page of the Beautifier plugin ?

[dxsooo]

@SGaist Yes, I did. I installed AStyle and ClangFormat but nothing changed

[jsulm]

@dxsooo And did you configure it as described in the link @SGaist posted?

[dxsooo]

@jsulm I tried many times but when I restarted Qt Creator, the Beautifier checkbox would back to uncheck

[SGaist]

Can you start Qt Creator from the console with the QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS environment variable set to 1 ? It should show you more information about what is happening.

[dxsooo]

Oops, I thought I solved the problem. It seems that when I check the checkbox in "About Plugins", Qt Creator would write to a 'file' to set the specific plugin to be load at starting. As I install Qt Creator in my home path, the 'file' might have to be written by sudoers. So I run Qt Creator from console with sudo and checked Beautifier and it loaded Beautifier plugin successfully at restarting.

Thanks @SGaist and @jsulm

[SGaist]

You should rather clean the permissions from that file than run Qt Creator with sudo.