Qt Creator: An ideal cross-platform IDE for Qt developers.
Both for Windowsas MacOS o GNU / Linux there are many Integrated Programming Environments (Integrated Development Environment / IDE), available to Developers to develop their applications and systems, however, few are free and / or open, and multiplatform at the same time, but QtCreator it is one of those few in existence.
Thus, QtCreator is a Open source cross-platform IDE specially designed for Qt application developers, as it focuses on providing special features in this language, for its easy learning and implementation.
Citing the Official Wiki of this Qt Development Technology it is described as:
"A cross-platform IDE (integrated development environment) that meets the needs of Qt developers. This is part of QtProject. It focuses on providing features that help new Qt users to learn and start developing quickly, it also increases the productivity of experienced Qt developers".
And that has the following characteristics:
- Code editor with support for C +, QML and ECMAscript
- Tools for quick code navigation
- Syntax highlighting and code auto-completion
- Static control of code and style as you type
- Support for code refactoring
- Context sensitive help
- Code folding
- Matching parentheses and selection modes
Qt Creator: Installing the cross-platform IDE
In many Free and open operating systemsas GNU / Linux, on your many existing Distros, you can install the same directly from your own repositories, but in a version that is surely not the most modern, and in many cases perhaps, not even the latest stable series, that is, the series of QT5, but Qt4.
Terminal Installation (CLI)
In previous posts, such as a call «Packages for Software Development support on DEBIAN 10»We have commented that it, along with other related tools, can be installed in the following way, that is, by executing the following command:
apt install libqt5core5a qt5-default qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev-tools
However, in the installation section of your official Wiki, it can be installed in different ways, according to various procedures by terminal (console) that will depend on the GNU / Linux Distro used.
Graphical Installation (GUI)
Meanwhile, for a simpler implementation, a graphical installation which can be done by following the procedure below:
A.- Step 1
Registration and login on the official website of Qt.
B.- Step 2
Download the executable of your choice and need from the download section of the official Qt website, both for the stable new versions as for the stable old versions.
C.- Step 3
Run the installer and install Qt Creator.
D.- Step 4
Launch Qt Creator, explore and use it at your convenience.
For more general information on QtCreator and Qt technology you can access our old publications related to it.
Conclusion
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This is a tremendous editor, I have used it in several projects and it is super complete. Thanks for sharing.
Greetings Juan! Thanks for your comment. It is excellent that your experience with said IDE is positive, so that it serves as a recommendation to others, so that they are motivated to use it.