Any solutions on Windows terminals?

JackMyson

Since most of the Qt terminal emulators are based on *nix-systems, which are far differ from Windows', there's few Windows terminal emulators. Either they're too complex or I can't go through their code (disclaimer: my bad, not their bad).

So I've a new idea: if it's Windows-only and Windows-problematic, why don't we use the ActiveX control provided by Qt to embed a powershell into the QMainWindow, as a QWidget?

But after I've gone through all those documentations, I've had no help on embedding the powershell...

Are there any solutions, any help will be appreciated. Thank in advance.

sierdzio

Qt Creator now comes with a built-in terminal, maybe look how they have implemented it?

JackMyson

@sierdzio Where's the source code in terms of the directory? I'd really love to see how it gets itself implemented.

JackMyson

Like, e.g., coin/CMake or 3rdparty/libs/..., etc., thanks!

sierdzio

I don't know the code of Qt Creator, sorry. Maybe try grepping the sources for some phrases like "Terminal" or "Create a new Terminal.". These should take you pretty close.

JackMyson

Seemingly, it lies on here:

https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/blob/27bddc436c71efdc05e49ec7620390e3f2bc89a5/src/plugins/terminal/terminalicons.h

But the code base is way too large and I can't comprehend (disclaimer once again: my bad, not theirs). However, I've found that some useful repositories, like

termqt by Terry Geng (written in Python, but I'll dig in). It seems it used pywinpty to emulate the functionalities...

Anyway, I'm not urgently needing it right now. Let me take a sip of my coffee and work on it step by step, without being too hastily.

SGaist

Hi,

KDE's Konsole also supports Windows, it might be easier to integrate it in your project.