Qt Creator is a great code editor first, a good debugger second, and its role as an actual IDE comes after that.
You're not missing anything. It just hasn't been done yet. qmake's file format is easy to do this kind of thing by hand in, so I would imagine that such a feature simply hasn't been a great priority. Think of it this way: how often do you actually go and do mass reorganization of your project? If the answer to this is anything more than "not very often" something's wrong with your workflow. ;) On the other hand, how often do you edit a source file? How often do you check out or check in code with your source code management tools? How often do you compile, test, and debug your application? There's plenty of other stuff that needs to work before renaming files is really a concern. /s/ Adam On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Sean Hignett <s...@intelligent-design.ca> wrote: > Hello all, > > I just recently discovered Qt, and Qt Creator. Was always aware of it, but > never paid it the attention it clearly deserves. Working through the C++ GUI > book to get up to speed. > > Qt Creator has some really impressive features... but... it also has some > strange omissions compared to all the IDEs I have used in the past (VS, > Eclipse, etc). > > I'll avoid the apparently standard noob whining about no file rename, no > folder creation, etc... Smart guys these Qt developers, so I assume there > must be some thinking behind this... it is so bizarre it must be intended :) > > Can anyone offer an example of how they use the IDE such that basic > integrated file management is not a requirement? I assume it is just a case > of using the OS file management tools (eg. terminal) and manually updating > the .pro files... but am I missing something? It would seem refactoring > would be somewhat cumbersome without the ability to re-organize files in > concert. I could get used to using terminal/finder/etc, but I can't imagine > ever not "wanting" the ability to do it directly in the IDE... is this crazy? > > Has anyone written a better FileSystem view as a plugin? (i.e. one that isn't > just read-only) > > Tips or advice is greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Sean > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > Qt-creator@trolltech.com > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
