The C++ support has been greatly improved

Apr 23, 2015 21:53 GMT  ·  By

On April 23, the Qt Creator development team, through Eike Ziller, had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of Qt Creator 3.4.0, a release that introduces a number of new features and improvements meant to boost the usability of the software.

According to the release notes, Qt Creator 3.4.0 introduces an all-new refactoring action in the C++ support, which will help Qt developers move all function definitions out of a class declaration. In addition, Qt 5 style connects receive auto-completion for slots and signals.

A locator filter, called "All Included C/C++ Files," has been introduced as well in Qt Creator 3.4.0, allowing users to quickly find all files that are used in their projects by including them, no matter if the respective files are explicitly mentioned in the project or not.

"We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 3.4.0 today. I’m highlighting some of the many new features below," says Eike Ziller on behalf of the Qt Creator development team. "Please take a look at our change log for a more complete list of features and fixes."

Here's what else is new in Qt Creator 3.4.0

As mentioned, Qt Creator 3.4.0 is a significant release that brings several new features and improvements. In addition to those mentioned above, the software now uses 64-bit Android toolchains, and supports searching through QML Profiler event notes.

Moreover, generic projects are now used for bare metal development, support for highlighting parenthesis in generic highlighters has been added, as well as support for changing the environment in order to run external tools.

Users of the Enterprise and Professional editions of Qt Creator will also get initial integration for Qt Quick tests and Qt Test-based automatic tests, the addition of the Tests navigation pane, stable Clang static analyzer integration, and suppression of individual diagnostics for a file. Download Qt Creator 3.4.0 right now from Softpedia.