On 3/24/2011 4:44 PM, ext Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing trainings from time to time, and I'm using Qt Creator as my editor > during the trainings. > The basic setup is a dual-screen setup: my laptop and the beamer. I'm using > this setup because I can display the slide on the beamer, and see the next > slides+notes on the laptop. > > As you can imagine, it doesn't play well with Qt Creator, so I created a new > window to clone the current editor, and a menu item to display it. So now I > can work on my laptop and students see what I'm typing. Whenever I change the > editor in Qt Creator, it's changed in the presenter window, the cursor are > synced and the current line stay in the middle of the presenter window. > > I tested it and it's working quite well (minus one crash when removing all > editors), my question is: does it make sense to clean it up and do a merge > request? or put in another way, are you interested in such a feature? > I can totally understand the answer is no. > > It's not a new plugin (can't do it like that, as it needs some internal > classes), but the patch is really small: > For those interested: > http://qt.gitorious.org/+kdab-developers/qt-creator/kdab-qt- > creator/commits/presenter >
Hi Nicolas, I wonder whether this would actually be a more generic use case which would allow somehow detaching the editor... Then, in your case, perhaps splitting it and moving it to the other screen would be a good approach? Cheers, Leandro. -- Leandro T. C. Melo Software Engineer Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks Nokia gate5 GmbH Firmensitz: Invalidenstr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin: HRB 106443B Umsatzsteueridentifikationsnummer: DE 812 845 193 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Halbherr, Karim Tähtivuori _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
