Indeed, time does fly. Today we released Qt Creator 1.1.0 together with Qt 4.5.1, VS Add-in 1.0, and an updated Qt SDK 2009.02 that contains the new Qt and Qt Creator. Get it from the downloads page!
I wrote a lot about the upcoming QtCreator 1.1 already in this blog post on the release candidate, but since you might not be inclined to actually read that as well, I’ll just take the chance to repeat myself ;). These are some of the highlights:
- Completely reworked editor split mechanism
- Improved function argument hint (since a lot of you reported problems with that one!)
- Improved open documents view (sorted, single-click, close buttons)
- Added experimental support for generic Makefile based projects
- Added signal/slot editor to the form editor
A lot of things are not mentioned above, please have a look at the more complete list of interesting changes.
Thank you all for the last minute feedback. If we didn’t manage to put your favorite feature in, don’t despair (and please don’t get your flame-thrower out), the next release will not be far away. For example we are working full-steam on the cdb (VS debugger) integration. If you want to check out what is going on, have a look at the snapshots (we are in the process of getting them up again. edit: available now), or at the source repository.
19 Responses to “1.1: After the release is before the release”
Great Releases!
Though, it would be great if you gave the option to install only Qt, without Qt Creator from the Qt SDK Installer..
(I haven’t checked Qt SDK 2009.02 yet, but in 2009.01 there is no such option)
@Lawand? Why. In this case, you can just download Qt/MinGW from the Qt folder.
True, but it would be more convenient to have a single package that would do both.
absolutely amazing 
simply love Qtcreator.. got a project running which I initially started using vim.. I’m glad I don’t have to use vim anymore
what I think is a bit strange is that openssl support isn’t included in the sdk (meaning it’s compiled with different switches than the normal Qt library builds .. I’m talking of the windows version if that wasn’t clear ^^)… so I would really appreciate it if in future releases the compile switches could be held equally (so there’s less confusion)
thanks again for your great work
I found a problem with this version:
On Windows, the location of Qt is not detected automatically. Accidentally I had the default Qt version set to the automatically detected one (which is by Creator), and tried to rebuild the project. Creator crashed. It seems that it crashes every time I try to rebuild using the context menu item “Rebuild Project” if the default Qt is set to the automatically detected one.
The parens above were supposed to say “(which is not found by Creator)”. The comment system strips out anything between angle brackets.
I’ve been using snapshots for some time now and I like the improvements from the 1.0, but there is only one problem, when you hold down the CTRL all object in the code turn to “links” whe you click on them - you get the same action if you press F2 when the cursor is on the object. Is there a way to disable this feature (CTRL+LMB -> go to definition) since it slows me down quite a lot.
The problem is when you want to replace some word - you double click the word and then you press CTRL+V, but if you press CTRL too fast it goes to definition of the word and then you paste the new word on the new location. In the previous versions I cold hold down the CTRL while I was selecting text but now it redirects me to the definition…
Can this feature be disabled in some way? Probably before compiling…
Nice release. I really like QtCreator. But I still miss the possibility
to display a directory tree in projects view…
Great Work! But I can’t find simple word completion like M-/ in emacs. Am I missing something?
And some cases when current autocomlete doesn’t work in QtCreator:
- include directive: http://tinyurl.com/cses2v
- smart pointers: http://tinyurl.com/c2foge
- iterators: http://tinyurl.com/cw5y4t
- QMap operator[]: http://tinyurl.com/dafdww.
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I downloaded:
Qt Creator 1.1.0
Based on Qt 4.5.1
Built on Apr 22 2009 at 12:20:23
From revision e81e94cb44
and there is a problem with Window Split shortcuts (Ctrl+E) when switching to vim mode in editor.
They simply are not working anymore and qt-creator doesn’t report this to the user like “In this mode
window split function is not working. Try reassign the shortcuts for that”.
Another issue is that from the application perspective there is no option to report a new bug.
I KDE apps which I usually use, such an option is in Help menu.
For me 1.1.0 version’s UI is terribly slow, it takes about second to open a menu, to select a line in editor etc. It’s behavior is so annoying that I had to revert to 1.0.0 version, which is just fine from that perspective. Do you have any idea what could be the reason and maybe there is a workaround? I am using Creators from open-source SDKs on WinXP SP2 machine with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 card. Something must have been changed since 1.0 version to cause this slowness effect…
I can confirm. I use the commercial Qt creator version 1.1.0. After each edit Qt Creator is always larger (up to 300MB) and slower.
edit:
I imported my project from a makefile-based project on a winXP SP2 machine. Maybe is this a problem or a hint for you.
Anyway, Qt creator is still a great work.
are we going to get CVS support sometime soon? That is the big thing keeping us on eclipse right now. Aren’t there lots of folks still using CVS out there??
I too am finding that QtCreator 1.1 (using Windows stand-alone download) is significantly slower than 1.0 and am reverting. I hope this is a temporary issue since I really like the QtCreator interface.
I would also like to have a directory tree for my project in QT Creator. It’s pretty big so it’s split between UI and framework, would be nice to have it in 2 separate structures as it’s not it 2 separate folders. The CDT does offer the possibility and so do almost all IDEs , don’t see why QT Creator can not do this. Maybe in 1.2 ?
This is still an initial QtCreator release and it’s an absolutely great tool for this first attempt to write an IDE. Don’t compare it with Eclipse, VS or something. It’s too early for that.
At this time it’s wonderful and it’s superfast on my Mac Pro
There is still a long way to go but the genius trolls will make it, I’m sure. It will become a great product in the coming future.
Thanks a lot for the Creator… It’s has been the missing piece for Qt.