Just before Qt Developer Days in Munich we released Qt Creator 2.1 Beta2 which was already very solid. We are pleased to announce that Qt Creator 2.1 now has also officially reached Release Candidate status and that RC packages are available for download.
For those of you who couldn’t attend Dev Days we have a sneak preview of Erik’s session “Getting the most out of Qt Creator”.
The Release Candidate is the last stop before the final launch – we are almost there. We would like to encourage you to download and start using the RC in your day-to-day work. It is really that good. ;)
So I guess by Christmas we'll have a final release.. Nice.. Can I see somewhere what are the new things/bugs fixed in this version?
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Don
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175 months ago
@2beers, the main Qt blog says "We invite you to download and starting working with the Release Candidate over the upcoming holiday period." .. which seems to imply that it will not, which implies there will also be no new Nokia SDK until then since that was always attached to creator 2.1 final.
Which is all fine if it ends up as a 4.7.2 enabled (also S^3) SDK with QML versioning and support, and with a pre-processed gnupoc Symbian SDK in the Linux version to develop against Symbian :) (or loosened restrictions on Symbian SDK distributions that allow a motivated third party to provide it)
Anyway, great work guys, it's a great product and only getting better! I prefer it over VS even for (Qt) desktop development now.
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Alex
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175 months ago
Can someone provide a link to the changelog for this version. Thanks.
I am keen to try the new sub-project support but the new 'Add to project' drop-down on the last page of the New Project wizard is always greyed out. What am I missing here? For example, I created a GUI project and then tried to create a static library project but I can't select the GUI project from this new drop-down.
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RealNC
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175 months ago
@owerfeldt: This is the changelog since 2.0, not the changelog between 2.1.0 beta and RC.
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Daniel Molkentin
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175 months ago
@RealNC: git log --oneline v2.1.0-beta2..v2.1.0-rc1 will give you the change log.
I've put it on http://chaos.troll.no/~dmol... for convinience.
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aportale
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175 months ago
@Daniel Molkentin: diff of branches would be a great feature on Gitorious (imagine, with clickable links to the commits). And no, before you say it, I am not going to implement that :p
(btw., unrelated.. how do you guys log in to leave comments, here? I did not find the login link. I can only login because I know the secret URL)
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Recluse
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175 months ago
You don't login. You just enter name, email, message and hit submit.
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JayBEE
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175 months ago
Is it possible for Qt Creator 2.1 rc1 to deploy Qt Quick apps to Maemo device (N900) or do I have to wait for the next version of the Nokia Qt SDK? It's not working for me, any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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aportale
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175 months ago
@JayBEE: It is supposed to work on the N900, if you have the pr 1.3 update with Qt 4.7 on it. At least I heard from N900 owners that they were able to deploy a Qt Quick App with Creator 2.1-rc1. What did not work? And could you create a bug report of it?
Note that the Qt version on the N900 requires the .qml file to import Qt 4.7. So if your .qml file currently imports "QtQuick 1.0" change that to "Qt 4.7".
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Scorp1us
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175 months ago
I hope 2.1 has a restart button!
:-)
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aportale
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175 months ago
@Scorp1us: To restart the app in the debugger? Or to restart the IDE? Creator does not have the latter one, sorry. Feel free to make a request in Jira (and convince some people to vote for it, you definitely got my vote) :)
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JayBEE
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175 months ago
Following up to inform that I finally got this working! w00t!!!
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kai
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175 months ago
I really like the ide and to be able to use cmake-files directly, but how does it check if a new build is needed or not? I have one machine where the ide never does a rebuild when I start the program (normal and start in debugger) even if I've changed something in a sourcefile. And I have two machines where there is always done a rebuild, even if nothing is changed. Can I somehow see what the rebuild is triggering?
(in procmon on the machine which never does a rebuild I only see "Process Profiling" and "FASTIONETWORKQUERY_OPEN" on the main cmake file; on the other machines I see many "QueryOpen" on all source-files and jom is started)
And as a sidenote: could you add a checkbox in the options to start programs in the debugger automatically and not start the debugger and afterwards start the program in the debugger?
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aportale
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175 months ago
@JayBEE: Glad to hear that. Can you share what the issue was? Maybe something we can improve in Creator. We are really curious :) Qt Quick apps deployment is supposed to work on the first attempt.
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kai
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175 months ago
okay, solved my problem, too.... it was not a rebuild done at every start, but a deployment at every start which can be disabled in the settings "extras -> options -> project"
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JayBEE
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175 months ago
@aportale, thanks. JIRA would list this as PBKAC. :) Basically I was on the wrong track working with non Qt Quick apps. When I started working with Qt Quick, as you stated, app deployment did work on the first attempt. :)
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MySchizoBuddy
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175 months ago
where can i download this video. it stops playing after 1 min.
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So I guess by Christmas we'll have a final release.. Nice.. Can I see somewhere what are the new things/bugs fixed in this version?
@2beers, the main Qt blog says "We invite you to download and starting working with the Release Candidate over the upcoming holiday period." .. which seems to imply that it will not, which implies there will also be no new Nokia SDK until then since that was always attached to creator 2.1 final.
Which is all fine if it ends up as a 4.7.2 enabled (also S^3) SDK with QML versioning and support, and with a pre-processed gnupoc Symbian SDK in the Linux version to develop against Symbian :) (or loosened restrictions on Symbian SDK distributions that allow a motivated third party to provide it)
Anyway, great work guys, it's a great product and only getting better! I prefer it over VS even for (Qt) desktop development now.
Can someone provide a link to the changelog for this version. Thanks.
@Alex: change log for 2.1: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-...
I am keen to try the new sub-project support but the new 'Add to project' drop-down on the last page of the New Project wizard is always greyed out. What am I missing here? For example, I created a GUI project and then tried to create a static library project but I can't select the GUI project from this new drop-down.
@owerfeldt: This is the changelog since 2.0, not the changelog between 2.1.0 beta and RC.
@RealNC: git log --oneline v2.1.0-beta2..v2.1.0-rc1 will give you the change log.
I've put it on http://chaos.troll.no/~dmol... for convinience.
@Daniel Molkentin: diff of branches would be a great feature on Gitorious (imagine, with clickable links to the commits). And no, before you say it, I am not going to implement that :p
(btw., unrelated.. how do you guys log in to leave comments, here? I did not find the login link. I can only login because I know the secret URL)
You don't login. You just enter name, email, message and hit submit.
Is it possible for Qt Creator 2.1 rc1 to deploy Qt Quick apps to Maemo device (N900) or do I have to wait for the next version of the Nokia Qt SDK? It's not working for me, any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
@JayBEE: It is supposed to work on the N900, if you have the pr 1.3 update with Qt 4.7 on it. At least I heard from N900 owners that they were able to deploy a Qt Quick App with Creator 2.1-rc1. What did not work? And could you create a bug report of it?
Note that the Qt version on the N900 requires the .qml file to import Qt 4.7. So if your .qml file currently imports "QtQuick 1.0" change that to "Qt 4.7".
I hope 2.1 has a restart button!
:-)
@Scorp1us: To restart the app in the debugger? Or to restart the IDE? Creator does not have the latter one, sorry. Feel free to make a request in Jira (and convince some people to vote for it, you definitely got my vote) :)
Following up to inform that I finally got this working! w00t!!!
I really like the ide and to be able to use cmake-files directly, but how does it check if a new build is needed or not? I have one machine where the ide never does a rebuild when I start the program (normal and start in debugger) even if I've changed something in a sourcefile. And I have two machines where there is always done a rebuild, even if nothing is changed. Can I somehow see what the rebuild is triggering?
(in procmon on the machine which never does a rebuild I only see "Process Profiling" and "FASTIONETWORKQUERY_OPEN" on the main cmake file; on the other machines I see many "QueryOpen" on all source-files and jom is started)
And as a sidenote: could you add a checkbox in the options to start programs in the debugger automatically and not start the debugger and afterwards start the program in the debugger?
@JayBEE: Glad to hear that. Can you share what the issue was? Maybe something we can improve in Creator. We are really curious :) Qt Quick apps deployment is supposed to work on the first attempt.
okay, solved my problem, too.... it was not a rebuild done at every start, but a deployment at every start which can be disabled in the settings "extras -> options -> project"
@aportale, thanks. JIRA would list this as PBKAC. :) Basically I was on the wrong track working with non Qt Quick apps. When I started working with Qt Quick, as you stated, app deployment did work on the first attempt. :)
where can i download this video. it stops playing after 1 min.