Now available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows

Aug 29, 2016 16:00 GMT  ·  By

A new stable version of the cross-platform and open-source Qt Creator IDE (Integrated Development Environment) software has recently been released for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

Qt Creator 4.1 is a major milestone that incorporates lots of improvements in various areas of the application designed for Qt developers. As expected, it supports the latest Qt 5.6 series of the open-source GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit, and now uses LLVM/Clang 3.8.1 or later for its binary packages.

Release highlights include two new themes, namely Flat Light and Flat Dark, which you can see in action if you access the gallery at the end of the story or here on your right. These themes are here to complement the Flat theme introduced in Qt Creator 4.0, and can be enabled from the Environment -> Interface -> Theme settings.

To make application development even more eye-candy, Qt Creator 4.1 adds new editor color schemes that users can activate in the Text Editor -> Fonts & Colors settings. Talking about editors, Qt Creator's built-in text editor receives improvements to automatic inserting and skipping of characters, as well as of quotes and Brackets.

"If you type a quote or bracket, the corresponding closing character is added. If you remove the opening character, it is removed again. If you type the closing character yourself, it replaces the automatically inserted one. Both of these now only happen as long as the text cursor did not move away from the closing character," reads the announcement.

C++, CMake, and Qt Quick improvements

Taking a quick look under the hood of Qt Creator 4.1, we can't help but notice that the code model and static analyzer integration got major improvements, as well as Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) support, which has been updated to MSVC2015 Update 3 thanks to the implementation of a recent Clang patch.

To better support your CMake projects, Qt Creator 4.1 adds multiple workflow improvements. Moreover, there are lots of performance improvements to both the QML Profiler and Qt Quick Designer components, along with a brand new "Move to Component" action for moving items and their contents into separate files.

Last but not least, Qt Creator 4.1 brings initial support for the Nim programming language, supporting syntax highlighting, coding style settings, simple project management, and indentation. Download Qt Creator 4.1 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now via our website.

Qt Creator 4.1 with new Flat Light theme
Qt Creator 4.1 with new Flat Light theme

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Qt Creator 4.1 with new Flat Dark theme
Qt Creator 4.1 with new Flat Light theme
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