As I would like to do more with C++ I had a look at Nokia’s Qt Creator. I tried the Qt Designer plugin for eclipse a few months ago yet and I liked the design approach, better than the Netbeans GUI creator (Mantisse). This time I didn’t build a GUI, I just wrote a little testing program in C++.

It is usable, but not comparable with the developing comfort that comes with eclipse. The auto completion of fields and methods is great and quick. But I wondered why the Qt classes do not appear in the auto completion list. And, it is damn slow compiling and running or debugging. And there is no built in output console as I am used to have with eclipse. Starting a console application on Windows launches the Windows CMD.

Summarizing my concerns:

• No built in command line (at least not on Windows)
• No tabbed window/editor switching. There are drop down lists which need at least one click more
• Very slow on building and running the application being developed.
• The Qt classes does not seem to appear in the autocompletion.

I think I still prefer the Eclipse CDT.