Qt Creator and D

michaelc37 via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jun 22 13:11:36 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 23:31:47 UTC, growler wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 23:25:56 UTC, growler wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 17:38:57 UTC, Joseph 
>> Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>>> On 18/09/13 19:10, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>> For starters, Qt creator can make use of Kate configuration 
>>>> files.
>>>>
>>>> So we could at very least have D syntax highlighting 
>>>> available.
>>>
>>> It is available -- current Qt Creator has the same d.xml as 
>>> the most recent Kate.  It dates from 2011 and supports both D 
>>> and Ddoc syntax highlighting.
>>>
>>> I wasn't able to get auto-indentation working with D source 
>>> files, though.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I use Qt Creator for debugging D when I get a hangover from 
>> too much GDB. It works fine with breakpoints, watch list and 
>> the rest. As long as I compile with -gc though.
>>
>> What would be nice is a plugin that provides some tools like 
>> jump to definition for variables, find usages etc. I'd be 
>> willing to help out with that, testing, coding, documenting 
>> etc.
>
> I should point out that the debugging is all from "Start and 
> Debug External Application" so of course there is no real 
> "project" support in the IDE. But it automatically steps into 
> all my code, third-party code (gtkd, orange etc.) and Phobos 
> without any major problems.

I'm not sure if this has been posted elsewhere, but it appears 
someone has done significant work make a QtCreator D plugin.

https://github.com/GoldMax/QtCreatorD

I like what i'm seeing so far.


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