Qt Creator Plug-in Gallery
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Extend Qt Creator
Even though Qt Creator and Eclipse are different tools written in different programming languages, they still share the approach of adding all the functionality by plugins. So, from that point of view Qt Creator and Eclipse can be seen more as plugin frameworks instead of IDEs.
A plugin implements certain extension points but at the same time can also define new extension points. And that’s where Qt Creator and Eclipse differentiate.
In Eclipse, the extension points are usually defined as soon as the plugin is implemented meaning that those interfaces are often best guesses based on one example extension if at all. This may easily result in unnecessary extension in the first place or too inflexible or limited interfaces for more real world use cases.
Qt Creator takes another approach. In most cases plugins do not define extension points immediately, so it’s always treated as a leaf. For the first use case which requires an extension we still recommend to put the new functionality into the existing plugin implementation. Once a second or third use case comes up we start refactoring the original plugin and define the extension points. Obviously, this is not a 100% guarantee that those interfaces are perfect and cover all future needs, but it’s definitely better than basing the extension point on only one example or even pure guesses.
Contributing plugins
Please check Qt_Creator_Plug-in_Contribution_Guide when considering contributing a plugin to Qt Creator.
Qt Creator Plug-in Gallery
Version Control Systems
Subversion Plug-in Improved
Improved in terms of importing a project to a SVN repository.
site [bavooo.be]
Bazaar plugin (merged)
A plugin adding support for the bazaar version control system.
site [blueprints.launchpad.net]
Status: merged into Qt Creator 2.2
Build Enviroment Support
autotools (merged)
Autotool support for Creator
site [gitorious.org]
Status: merged into Qt Creator 2.4
Premake Project Manager Plugin
This plugin adds support of Premake [industriousone.com] build configuration tool into Qt Creator.
site [gitorious.org]
CodeBlocks Project Manager Plugin
This plugin can read Codeblocks .workspace project files. It reads the projects hierarchy and parses the individual .cbp project files to extract the source and header files and the build targets. Using commandline Codeblocks it allows you to (re)build your workspace. Also the build output is parsed(gcc and msvc supported).
site [gitorious.org]
Google Native Client Toolchain Plugin
Adds the Chrome browser as a target. For use with the NaCl port of Qt.
site [wiki.qt.io]
Meique build system plugin
site [github.com]
CMake Project Manager
Enhances the CMake integration
site [github.com]
Boost.Build Project Manager
Provides basic integration with Boost.Build [boost.org] system to build C++ projects.
site [github.com]
Status: usable, works with Qt Creator 3+, early development
Language support
RubyCreator
Add Ruby language support to QtCreator.
site [hugopl.github.io]
Code documentation and status
Doxygen Plugin
Generates doxygen comments from source code and can launch doxywizard for editing doxygen config file
site [dev.kofee.org]
Status: works with Qt Creator 2.5
Jenkins Status plugin
Shows the status of Jenkins on the left site. This Plugin is based on the CruiseControl-Plugin.
site [github.com]
Status: works with Qt Creator 2.5
New features for QtCreator
Class browser
site [cppblog.com]
Emacs keys
Emacs-style keybindings, alike "FakeVim"
site [github.com]
Status: last commit June 2011, works with Qt Creator 2.2.1
Quick Attach
site [github.com]
Editor Tabs
site [github.com]
XmlTree Plugin
A plugin for reading and editing xml files as tree. site [gitorious.org]
Status: active developed
Development helping tools
CppCheck
Static analysis of C/C++ code developed as an external opensource tool.
Checks for:
- Out of bounds checking
- Check the code for each class
- Checking exception safety
- Memory leaks checking
- Warn if obsolete functions are used
- Check for invalid usage of STL
- Check for uninitialized variables and unused functions
More Informations: Project homepage [cppcheck.sourceforge.net]
Qt-cppcheck integrates the external command line tool into QtCreator IDE. Automatic and manual check of active project and individual project files. Display found error in task pan (with marks in editor)
Supported Versions: QtCreator 3.2
Plattforms: currently only binaries for windows
Plugin homepage [gres.biz]
Plugin download [sourceforge.net]
CppHelper
generates implementation-stubs site [gitorious.org]
Status: discontinued, replaced by refactoring action in Qt Creator 2.1
Code Coverage
site [github.com]
Encapsulation
site [github.com]
QuML, an UML tool
Started as a Master Thesis, currently abandonned
thesis [vakken.groept.be]
appendices [vakken.groept.be]
git repository [gitorious.org]
Profiling plugin
(oprofile / linux based) site [qt.gitorious.org]
Artistic Style Plugin
Full featured code pretty printer plugin using astyle site [astyleplugin.sourceforge.net]
Static Code Quality Plugin
A plugin for performing static code quality tests. Based on Krazy and making use of Qt Script and the cpp parser that comes with Qt Creator.
Currently in a development state and not completely ready for use.
site [gitorious.org]
WebRunTime Plugin
Support for developing web based applications. Only a video of the plugin in action. Status: unknown "video":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXBE0DZmonY
OpenPilot
A plugin using Qt Creator as a plugin manager only, embedding a map. Status: unknown site [openpilot.org]
CruiseControl Monitor Plugin
A simple plugin for monitoring a CruiseControl continuous integration server site [code.google.com]
Status: outdated, last commit 4th July 2010 for Qt Creator 2.0.0
Mylyn Plugin (abandoned)
Mylyn is a application lifecycle management plugin, inspired by an eclipse plugin of the same name. Status: abandoned. Anyone wishing to pick up the project is encouraged to contact the former project owner on github [github.com]
Tufão (an asynchronous web framework)
site [github.com]
External documentation
You can display external documentation in the Qt Creator Help mode. For more information, see the "Qt Creator Manual":http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator-2.8/creator-help.html#adding-external-documentation.