How do i turn off ALL the code completion in Creator ?

[codematic]

all this is nice an everything but the code completion box pops up directly over the text im trying to type.... so its just in the way...

There needs to be a way to turn it off...

[wysota]

all this is nice an everything but the code completion box pops up directly over the text im trying to type....

Just type the next letter of the word you were typing. Honestly that's the first complaint I ever heard about code completion being there. Usually people complain some editor doesn't have that functionality. I think Trolls didn't assume anyone would ever want to turn it off.

There needs to be a way to turn it off...

Did you try disabling the plugin as suggested?

[SABROG]

Did you try disabling the plugin as suggested?

There is no options for disable plugins. You can rename or delete CppTools.dll but him depending from CppEditor. Where Creator is starting you get warning message about failed loading plugins and after this you can't edit source files, just nothing happens when you dblclick on .cpp or .h.

[wysota]

There is no options for disable plugins.

Sure there is. Run Creator with -help and see for yourself.

As for the functionality - you can always open cpp and h files using the plain text editor. It means no code highlighting and code completion of course.

[SABROG]

Sure there is. Run Creator with -help and see for yourself.

It's also doesn't work:

D:\Work\qt-creator-1.3.0\bin>qtcreator.exe -noload CppTools

D:\Work\qt-creator-1.3.0\bin>qtcreator.exe -noload CppTools

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[wysota]

It does work. That's why you see the window with unresolved dependencies.

[SABROG]

It does work. That's why you see the window with unresolved dependencies.

It's turned off plugin, but CppEditor depending from him and how result source code editor don't worked, so this is not a solution.

[wysota]

It's hard for something to work if something it depends on is not there. A proper solution is to clone Qt Creator git repository and implement the functionality you want by yourself.

[squidge]

A solution on Windows would be UltraEdit. You edit your code in that, and then when you want to compile, you switch to QtCreator and hit the compile hotkey. I do this at work as the IDE they use is garbage - notepad would be better! (Seriously, for a £3000 product, you wouldn't expect the line to flicker after each character typed due to the constant redrawing)

There are similar alternatives for Linux.

[SABROG]

Using other code editor is avoiding problem. Need more settings in QtCreator and developers must somehow know about this, so i think topicstarter must create bugreport (suggestion) for QtCreator or, as say wysota, go to QtCreator git repository and suggest patch.

[wysota]

Qt Creator is mainly a text editor. Switching to Qt Creator just to complile your code doesn't make sense. It's faster to do it from the command line.

[squidge]

Command line can be annoying though. If you compile a source file and find out you have 20,000 errors because of a missing semicolon, you can't find that out because the first error is beyond the start of the buffer. Qt Creator will show you the first error and even let you move through them and jump to the (sometimes approximate) offending line of code.

[wysota]

Qt Creator will show you the first error and even let you move through them and jump to the (sometimes approximate) offending line of code.

It will jump with the external editor? If not then it's just a matter of redirecting make's output to something else than the command line console - i.e. a file or a pipe. Some advanced editors would even allow running make from within themselves and would show the output in some nice window.