14 DAY TRIAL // The Qt Company, through Eike Ziller, announced today the availability of the Beta release of the upcoming Qt Creator 4.3 open-source and cross-platform IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Qt application developers.
Qt Creator 4.3 promises to be a major release adding some very exciting changes, starting with the integration of a QML code editor into the Qt Quick Designer component to allow developers to use the Properties editor or the Navigator views, among many others, also for text-based editing.
"When you use the split view, you directly see the effects of what you are doing. The graphical editor got support for adding items and tab bar to stacked containers like StackedLayout and SwipeView, a tool bar with common actions, and support for HiDPI displays," reads today's announcement.
Additionally, this integration allows you to view performance information directly in the QML code editor when profiling your Qt Quick application with the QML Profiler component. Also, it looks like Qt Creator 4.3 Beta comes with various performance improvements to the profiler itself.
CMake 3.7 or later now officially supported, experimental clang-query support
Among other improvements implemented in the Beta release of Qt Creator 4.3, we can mention support for CMake 3.7 or later, specifically the build system generator's new server-mode, because it provides better information about the included paths and structure of a project.
Qt Creator allows the use a file for different projects or sub-projects with varying defines, as well as its inclusion in the context of C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ code. It's now possible to choose a different project from a separate dropdown menu in the editor toolbar.
The Beta of Qt Creator 4.3 also implements experimental support for clang-query to the Advanced Find component if you enable the ClangRefactoring plugin. iOS developers can now choose the provisioning profile and developer team used for signing, and Android SDK 25.2.5 is supported in this version.
Last but not least, Qt Creator 4.3 Beta implements a Python-based printing backend to CDB debugging to make it start much faster, as well as to unify pretty printing between CDB, LLDB, and GDB. Download Qt Creator 4.3 Beta for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website.