It's available now for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows systems

May 24, 2017 20:58 GMT  ·  By

Qt Project's Eike Ziller was proud to announce today the general availability of Qt Creator 4.3.0, a major release of the open-source and cross-platform IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for creating Qt apps for various operating systems.

Qt Creator 4.3.0 enters Beta stages of development at the end of March, and now, almost two months later, it's here in its production-ready state to help application developers create the most awesome apps in Qt. There are many interesting changes implemented in this major update, but the biggest one is the integration of a code editor into the Qt Quick Designer component.

"This allows you to use the Properties editor and the Navigator also while editing code. Additionally, you can split the view to show both the graphical and the code editor, and directly see how a change in the graphical editor affects the code, and vice versa. Of course, you can still use the code-only editor in the Edit mode as well," explains Eike Ziller in today's announcement.

But Qt Quick Designer also received better support for stacked containers, as well as a new toolbar so you can easily access your most common actions. Qt Creator 4.3.0 also comes with support for the server-mode functionality introduced in CMake 3.7 build system, thus providing developers with richer information about a project's structure, include path, etc.

C++ improvements, CDB and MSVC debugging

Among other noteworthy features implemented in Qt Creator 4.3.0, we can mention the ability to import existing builds of a project compiled with CMake, a new Python-based backend for CDB support when debugging MSVC (Microsoft Visual C++) code on Windows platforms, as well as a new drop-down menu in the C++ editor, which will appear in the top toolbar of the editor.

The QML Profiler also received some improvements in this new update of Qt Creator, allowing devs to view performance information of their Qt Quick applications directly in the QML code editor. Under the hood, Qt Creator 4.3 comes with support for Android SDK 25.3.1, and lets iOS developers choose the provisioning profile and developer team used for signing.

Download Qt Creator 4.3 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.