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The QtCreator 2.0 release contains bug fixes and new features.
Below is a list of relevant changes. You can find a complete list of changes
within the logs of Qt Creator's sources. Simply check it out from the public git
repository e.g.,
git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline v1.3.1...v2.0.0
General
* The Output mode was replaced by the functionality to maximize
the output panes
* File dialog is now opened in current directory
* File system view improvements (context menu)
* Options dialog: Added filters and ordering
* .user-files get now saved before they are upgraded to a new version
of Qt creator
* Added option to set interface language explicitly, overriding the locale
setting
* New "Design" mode for visual editors
* Fixed crash when working with empty pro-file
* Ask for close, save, or save as when file is removed while open in Qt Creator
* Use shadowbuilding by default in new projects whenever possible
Editing
* Text based search and replace in multiple files
* Added option to disable scroll wheel zooming
* Added option to indent braces (aligning them with the indented block)
* Added option to choose tabs or spaces based on surrounding code
* Added Join Lines action (Ctrl+J)
* Code completion is now only first-letter case-sensitive by default
* Open with "System Editor"
* Fixed missing semicolon after } when creating unnamed enumeration
* Fixed auto indent for C style coments
* Copying text from the editor now supports HTML mime type, preserving
the syntax highlighting.
* Block selection defines a find & replace scope
* Added customizable default file encoding (in addition to the project setting)
* Added syntax highlighting for CMake project files
* Fixed .pro files being reformatted if files have been added or removed.
In addition, whitespace is preserved
* Fixed the file system sidebar to update automatically
* Fixed updating code completion for generated UI header files
CodePaster
* Implemented new protocol of pastebin.com including list functionality
C++ Support
* Recognize *.cu as C files
* Fixed false errors in code model on windows when used with MSVC
* Added "Auto fold first comment" option
Project support
* Reworked support for developing for different targets:
* Reworked project settings
* Reworked selection of active configuration
* Expand environment variables in Generic Project file lists
* Preserve the original paths of the Generic Project file list when
adding/removing files
* Allow changing the build environment for Generic Projects
* Added context menu options to open file manager or terminal in a files
directory
* Fixed the DEFINES and INCLUDES set in .pro files to be dealt with
on a file-specific level and enabled the handling of DEFINES.
Also, the .qmake.cache is now parsed
Debugging
* Add on-device debugging for the Symbian platform using gdb
* Add on-device debugging for the Maemo platform using gdb
* gdb: Replace compiled "debugging helpers" by Python based ones
(except on Mac)
* New debugging helpers for QUrl, QAtomicInt, __gnu_ext::hash_map and more
* Additional features for breakpoint, disassembler output, stack,
registers and watchers views
* Improve variable tooltip handling
* gdb: Support reverse execution where available
* gdb: Added mixed disassembler/source output whenever possible
* cdb: Fixed bug in location marker
* cdb: Fixed handling of mixed-case file names correctly by normalizing file
names
* pdb: Added some basic debugging for Python scripts based on pdb
* Improvements in the dialogs, status messages, and general appearance
* Fixed debugging helpers to work while debugging applications on devices
* On Linux and Windows, enabled installing Qt with one user account and
then using it with another without workarounds
* Fixed all data types to work in the Watch Window of CDB
Help
QML/JS Support
* Runtime QML errors become links to the location of the error
* Extended code navigation and completion
* Added initial semantic checks
* New qml based .qmlproject file format (replaces old format)
Platform Specific
Mac
* Show build error count in Dock icon
* Handle the OBJECTIVE_HEADERS qmake variable
Linux (GNOME and KDE)
* Dropping files on the editor now opens them instead of inserting a url
Windows
* Fixed possible crash when searching files in file system
* Show build error count in Taskbar (Windows 7 only)
* Show build progress in Taskbar (Windows 7 only)
* Support Windows SDKs
* Register Creator for post-mortem debugging using the
settings dialog
Symbian Target
* Deploying shows real progress bar
* Show the connection state of devices in the selector
for the active configuration
* Respect the EPOCROOT environment variable and the default device
if no S60 SDK is explicitly given in the Qt Version preferences
* Prevent launching of debugger while application is running and vice
versa
* Handle unplugging of device
* Handle application crash when running, print proper error message
* Add support for command line arguments
* Move package creation and signing to be a build step
(Users that had multiple symbian run configurations with different
signing settings need to re-create their settings as different
build configurations)
* Add support for the mobility API into any mobile project set up
using the Qt wizards
* Add capabilities and UID into the pro-file
Maemo Target
* New feature
* Built on top of MADDE package
* Supports building for, deploying to and running on N900 devices
* Add support for the mobility API into any mobile project set up
using the Qt wizards
Version control plugins
* Made menu actions more consistent, added some missing actions
* Added "Annotate previous" accessible from context menu of annotation
view, added "annotate" action to context menu of file log
* Added command locator to be able to trigger menu actions from the
locator.
* Added setting for time-outs
* Added a plugin for Mercurial
* Diff highlighter: Mark trailing whitespace in added lines
* Support creating repositories from the project wizards (git, Mercurial)
* git: Added support for stashes
* git: Support adding files with intend-to-add in file wizards including
check on version of git
* git: Expand commit template relative to repository
* git: Added setting for whitespace in diff/blame
* git: Added options to apply patches from file and current editor,
allowing for CodePaster-based review workflows
* Subversion: Add parent directories correctly when adding new files
* Added "Open file" context menu action to log pane
Qt Designer integration
* Use 'Design' mode
Wizards
* Improved summary page, added ordering, simplified application wizards
* Added wizards for unit tests and classes based on QSharedData
* Introduced project directory setting
* Add a wizard for mobile Qt applications
Additional credits go to:
* Roopesh Chander (choosing spaces or tabs based on surrounding code)
* Jeffrey Baumes (added option to indent braces)
* Roquette (fixed missing semicolon)
* Sergey Demchenko (fixed auto indent for C style coments)
* Falco Hirschenberger (added Join Lines action)
* Brian McGillion (Mercurial plugin)
* Laurent Desmecht (build configuration fixes)