Qt Creator – A Cross-Platform and a Complete C++ IDE

Qt Creator  is a cross-platform and a complete C++ integrated development environment (IDE) that was designed to overcome the needs of the Qt developers. Where Qt is again a cross-platform application and UI framework. Qt helps you in write web-enabled applications once and enables you to deploy them over desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.

Qt Creator has combined with the latest Qt libraries and additional development tools  a complete SDK. Qt Creator design gives two key benefits to the users: firstly it provides IDE specifically for cross-platform development; and secondly it enables the developers who are actually new to the Qt framework to get up and run more quickly.
Qt Creator has combined with the latest Qt libraries and additional development tools  a complete SDK.

Qt Creator includes:
    An advanced C++ code editor
    Integrated GUI layout and forms designer
    Project and build management tools
    Integrated, context-sensitive help system
    Visual debugger
     code navigation tools
    Supports multiple platforms

QtCreator  is available for the Linux, Mac OS X and Windows platforms. C++ compiler from the GNU Compiler Collection on Linux, MinGW with the default install on Windows, cdb when compiled from source.

QtCreator Features

1.    Smart Code Editor: for syntax highlighting and code completion.
2.    Qt4 Project Generating Wizard:  helps you in generating projects for a console application, a GUI application, or a C++ library.
3.    Qt Help Integration: helps you in accessing Qt’s entire documentation by just   clicking on the Help button.
4.    Qt Designer Integration: Simply double-click on a .ui file within the Project Explorer to launch the integration,     where you will able to design the user interface forms within QtCreator
5.    Locator: it’s a navigation tool that lets the user locate files and classes using minimal keystrokes.
6.    Support for qmake’s .profile format: .pro files of the projects are used as a project description file.
7.    Debugging Interface to GDB: Applications can be debugged within Qt Creator using a graphical frontend to the GNU symbolic debugger.

The latest release of Qt Creator has given a preliminary support for development that mainly focuses on Symbian platform.

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