> Honestly, for anything other than a toy project you're going to have a lot of sources/headers anyway and there's not a whole lot you can do in a folder view/source file view. (I use open documents...which is useful for decent sized projects).
The consensus on the creator team, is mostly the same. (Not all agree, though.) That is a project tree works fine for smaller projects, but it has quite a few scalability issues for projects. They can be overcome by e.g. using manual organization like Visual Studio allows with virtual folders or somewhat by organizing the files finer. Also the project tree isn't very keyboard friendly. So in Creator we have added quite a few navigation shortcuts which in my opinion do scale better. And you should really try to use them, chances are that you won't miss the project tree. That is: Ctrl+k (for the Locator) + filename, usually you can open a file with ~6 keystrokes. In most cases though, you don't want to open a file, usally you want to go to say the implementation of a class, or the implementation of a method and for those cases we have a special shortcuts: Ctrl+k :, Ctrk+k m, Ctrl+k c, Ctrl+k ., which do : => All symbols m => methods c => classes . => symbols in current file (I'm not sure which version we added that.) You don't need to remember all of them, I mainly use the shortcut for methods and classes and don't use the other. And you are exactly where you want to go too, not on line 1, looking at a fullscreen copyright header. There is one shortcut that is even more usefull, that is F2, which simply is: Follow symbol under cursor. That is if the method, class implementation is actually used in the place you are currently working on, then navigating there is just ONE keypress. And that the normal case. It also works on #include lines and macros. We also have Alt+Left, Alt+Right for navigating back and forward through your history. Especially Alt+Left is handy after following the code with F2 a few times. And Ctrl+Tab to circle between your open documents, sorted by when you last used them. In between those shortcuts, I haven't used the project tree for opening files for a long time, and have it acutally hidden. We'll continue to improve the project tree to make it more useable for people that want to use it and are open for outside contributions. But if you want to navigate your project efficiently, we have build a few tools for you, which beat the project tree easily. daniel _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
