Here's a new tool in HiQt that you don't see in other IDE's...
it's a menu option for generating the file and class dependency
graphs for the currently active project. Within seconds, you
can see the big picture for your project, and double click on
a file node (or a class node) to go straight to the source.
Below are graphs for the elegant qmake.pro.
Graphs are generated using GraphViz --
which I include with the Windows binary distribution.
Usually output of Graphviz is .png or .ps, but in this case
I show the nodes as QGraphicsItem's in a QGraphicsScene
so there are a lot of possibilities...
for now you can just double click the nodes to go the the source.
A note to Linux users... I realize that HiQt
is quite unpleasant on Linux -- i.e. there are several
things that for whatever reason don't port nicely
from Windows. The most severe problem is the
loss of input focus during code completion -- another
thing is the ctags/etags issue. I'll work on these things,
but for now I have very limited access to a Linux box
with 4.3.0 (I need latest version since there are unworkable
bugs in 4.2).
To Windows developers... I believe that the program
is stable, and in my opinion your best bet if you want
to manage your own .pro files. You need Qt 4.3.0 to use it.
Please try it and tell me if it is not getting to be even more
of a useful tool than microsoft studio.
Also, latest version has much faster code completion than a few days ago.
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