qt-creator/dist/changes-1.2.0

The QtCreator 1.2 release contains bug fixes and new features.

A more detailed list of changes follows below. If you want to know the exact
and complete list of changes, you can check out the QtCreator sources from the
public git repository and check the logs, e.g.

git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
git log --pretty=oneline v1.1.0..v1.2.0

This release introduces source and binary incompatible changes to the plugin
API, so if you created your own custom plugins these need to be adapted.

General:
   * Reworked Welcome Screen
   * Speed improvement: store large amounts of persistent data
     (e.g. locator cache) in an SQLite database
   * Show current file name in the window title

Editing
   * Added option to allow alphabetical method combo box
   * Introduced Block highlighting
   * Improved code folding markers
   * Further improvements to FakeVim mode
   * Make it possible to disable Ctrl+Click navigation
   * Added optional XCode-style tab indentation
   * Ui changes are added immediately to the code model
   * Fixed possibly missing code completion with mingw toolchain
   * Added option for turning antialiasing of text editor fonts off
   * Added searching with regular expressions in text editors
   * Added an action that deletes a line without copying it
   * Added copy line up/down actions (Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down)

Building and Running
   * New options: Auto-Save before Build and Run without building
   * Environment settings
   * Fixed bug that prevented use of Qt 4 with version < 4.2

Debugging
   * Added Windows Console Debugger support (x86 and AMD64)
   * Added command line options to attach to process ids
   * Further improved dumpers; do additional memory checking on Windows to
     avoid crashes for speedup
   * Changed method of dumper loading on Windows, enabling it for MinGW 64
   * Make it possible to disable breakpoints
   * Make it possible to float the debugger views

Wizards

Designer
   * Added "Qt Designer" (external editor) to "Open With" menus

Version control plugins
   * Made submit action raise existing submit editors
   * Made svn detection recognize TortoiseSVN using "_svn" as directory
   * Fixed perforce configuration checking, made it use the settings correctly

Documentation
   * Added tutorial on how to create an application from scratch using Creator

I18N
   * Added infrastructure for translations
   * Added German translation

Platform Specific

Windows
  * Show native path separators
  * Experimental support for the Microsoft C++ compilers from Windows SDKs
    or VS 2005/2008 (x86 and AMD64)

Mac

Linux

Other Unixes
   * Made Qt Creator less dependant on Linux specific defines

Additional credits go to:
   * axasia <axasia@gmail.com> (japanese translation, compile fixes)
   * Christian Hoenig <christian@hoenig.cc> ("Build Project Only" submenu and
     build project dependencies, various patches)
   * Enrico Ros <enrico.ros@gmail.com> (italian translation)
   * Joel Nordell <joel.nordell@chloridepower.com> (XCode-style tab behavior,
     various patches)
   * Serge Ratke <dev.serge.ratke@gmx.de> (copy lines up/down)