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Qt Creator version 2.4 contains bug fixes and new features.
The most important changes are listed in this document. For a complete
list of changes, see the Git log for the Qt Creator sources that
you can check out from the public Git repository. For example:
git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline v2.3.1...origin/2.4
General
* Showing more useful error dialog in case of plugin errors
* Reduce minimum size of preferences dialog
Editing
* Advanced search: Show more information about the search parameters
* Advanced search: Move the previously modal dialog into search results pane
* Advanced search: Keep a history of most recent searches and their results
* Code Style schemas implemented, you can reuse them in different projects now
Managing Projects
* Shared project settings support
* New templates for non-Qt C and C++ applications
Debugging
* Initial Qt 5 support in dumpers
* Make vtables visible
* Improved remote debugging
* Improved register handling (partial updates, input in hex, ARM Neon support)
* Remove inferior calls in QDate, QTime, QDateTime dumpers
* Fix QTextCodec dumpers
* Globally enable pretty printing for references
* Saner handling of unprintable data in Locals and Expressions
* Add "Local8Bit" as display option for char arrays and pointers
Debugging QML/JS
* New option to attach to a running application
* Lots of bug fixes especially for debugging in combination with C++
* Initial support for debugging JS in Qt 5 (v8 engine)
Analyzing Code
* Standalone qmlprofiler command line tool allows you to retrieve & store QML tracing data
* Ability to store and load traces in a file
* New option to attach to a running application
C++ Support
* Add quick fix to synchronize function declarations and definitions
* Make 'insert definition from declaration' use minimally qualified names
and find a good insertion location next to surrounding declarations
* Fix completion for typedefs for templates in namespaces
* Use minimally qualified names in function signature completion
* Use minimally qualified names in 'insert local declaration' quick fix
* When switching between header/source, prefer files in the same directory
* Fix problem with encoding and quick fixes (QTCREATORBUG-6140)
* Fix preservation of indentation level in comments with tabs (QTCREATORBUG-6151)
* Improve performance for files with a huge number of literals
QML/JS Support
* Add 'Rename usages' functionality (QTCREATORBUG-3669)
* Add collection of static analysis messages with Ctrl-Shift-C
* Add semantic highlighting
* Significantly improve scanning of C++ documents for qmlRegisterType and
setContextProperty calls (QTCREATORBUG-3199)
* Add warning about inappropriate use of constructor functions
* Add warning about unreachable code
* Add support for .import directive in js files
* Add completion for XMLHttpRequest, DB API and JSON.
* Add 'length' property to functions
* Use mime types to distinguish qml and js files
* Show the function argument hint for signals
* When completing enums, add qualified names instead of strings
* Honor typeinfo lines in qmldir files
* Make string literals that contain file names into links (QTCREATORBUG-5701)
* Add warning about invalid types in 'property' declarations (QTCREATORBUG-3666)
* Fix highlighting of property types (QTCREATORBUG-6127)
* Fix 'follow symbol' for local variables (QTCREATORBUG-6094)
* Fix function argument hints on variables (QTCREATORBUG-5752)
* Fix completion for enums in a different scope
* Fix typing '/' triggering a global completion
* Fix handling of meta object revision in C++ QML plugins
* Fix indentation of block property initializers
* Fix indentation of labelled statements
* Fix scope for completion in code bindings
* Allow for different builtin type information per Qt version
* Update builtin type information and parser for Qt 5
* Use qmlscene for previewing files in Qt 5
Qt Quick Designer
* Adding breadcrumb navigation for components
* Adding layout functionality to context menu.
Help
Platform Specific
Mac
* "Run in Terminal" was not finding xterm by default
Linux (GNOME and KDE)
Windows
* Aborting the build now works properly. Qt Creator sends Ctrl-C to the
build process via the process_ctrlc_stub helper program.
Symbian Target
Remote Linux Support
* Move Maemo/MeeGo support into its own plugin.
* Assume less about the target systems, e.g. in respect to the presence of
POSIX-conforming tools.
Qt Designer
FakeVim
* Add basic command editing in Ex mode
* Mention "comma escape" in Documentation
* Fix foreground color for search matches in Dark scheme
* Fix toggling visual mode with "v"
Version control plugins
* SVN: Support for SVN version 1.7
* Git: New option to toggle decoration settings for log and show commands
Additional credits go to:
* Benito van der Zander (code model)
* Christoph Mathys (debugger)
* Hugues Delorme (version control refactoring, bazaar)
* Jonathan Liu (SVN 1.7 support)
* Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos (quick fixes)
* Orgad Shaneh (git, debugger, other places)
* Peter Kuemmel (bug fixes)
* Thorbjørn Lindeijer (code model)
* Vlad Brovko (improve symlink support)
* Yuchen Deng (bug fixes, project wizards)