This is very worthwhile input, sorry to sound like I'm fobbing you off elsewhere, but it would be excellent if you could turn this into a suggestion task over at http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com.
Thanks, Bill. On 09/17/2010 07:10 AM, ext Matthias Pospiech wrote: > I would like to share my experience in a workshop I have given lately. > It was about c++ and a basic introduction of classes. It had nothing to > do with Qt, though > I used it in one example for plotting a function, and I created all > example projects with QtCreator. > > No student taking the course (3 hours in one day) had any C++ > environment installed, so I gave the latest windows sdk and the > QtCreator 2.0.1 > installation around. Unfortunately neither of the programs put any path > into the PATH (why ?) . That meant that we had to add a Qt environment > in Creator. Aport from being very confusing for all students none of > them understood which path to add. I had displayed my path on the projector, > but nevertheless most of the got it wrong. > > Then we started writing code. However in most cases Creator did not > compile anything but instead printed a mesage about make not found or > similar. > We first thougth that the path would be wrong, but that was not the > problem. Instead nothing was set up wrong. We had to restart QtCreator > to get it working. > > The third error was that in my example for all students the project > could not link the project relative path libraries. Why ? Because of > shadow builds. So no student including me understood the usage of shadow > builds because they just break your project from compilation. > > Once everything worked they were happy with it. > > So could these basic first-set-up procedure be improved? > > Matthias > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > Qt-creator@trolltech.com > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > -- Bill King, Software Engineer Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia Pty Ltd Brisbane Office _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
