Improve "Visualize Indent" option
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wrote on 6 Feb 2024, 14:33 last edited by
I did'nt found any directory on forum such as "Suggestions" or "Ideas", so i'm posting it here. Sorry if it is the wrong place.
In Qt Creator -> Edit -> Preferences -> Display there is useful functionality called "Visualize Indent".:
It does provide vertical indication for your blocks in Text Editor, so all kinds of blocks and their hierarchies does not look empty and floating in blank empty space:
Such functionality not new, and was present in most IDE's and some text editors ~since early 2000, and it is cool that Developers of Qt added that to.
BUT!
I'm personally missing one more important customization option about this vertical line, which i had in some previous editors back in the day - it is to be able to change line style, so it could be not just 'whole' line, but also possibilities chose 'dotted', 'dash', 'dash-dot' etc.It is present, but for horizontal indentation and called "Underline", and horizontal can be customized when vertical(most people interested in) sadly - can not :(
Hope it'd be heard by someone, so it would have a chance to be added in the future.
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I did'nt found any directory on forum such as "Suggestions" or "Ideas", so i'm posting it here. Sorry if it is the wrong place.
In Qt Creator -> Edit -> Preferences -> Display there is useful functionality called "Visualize Indent".:
It does provide vertical indication for your blocks in Text Editor, so all kinds of blocks and their hierarchies does not look empty and floating in blank empty space:
Such functionality not new, and was present in most IDE's and some text editors ~since early 2000, and it is cool that Developers of Qt added that to.
BUT!
I'm personally missing one more important customization option about this vertical line, which i had in some previous editors back in the day - it is to be able to change line style, so it could be not just 'whole' line, but also possibilities chose 'dotted', 'dash', 'dash-dot' etc.It is present, but for horizontal indentation and called "Underline", and horizontal can be customized when vertical(most people interested in) sadly - can not :(
Hope it'd be heard by someone, so it would have a chance to be added in the future.
@Engelard Thanks for writing this up! This is a user forum, though, so it's not the ideal place to file suggestions that should reach the developers. A better place is the project bug & feature tracker : https://bugreports.qt.io/projects/QTCREATORBUG . Feel free to file a 'Suggestion' there.
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@Engelard Thanks for writing this up! This is a user forum, though, so it's not the ideal place to file suggestions that should reach the developers. A better place is the project bug & feature tracker : https://bugreports.qt.io/projects/QTCREATORBUG . Feel free to file a 'Suggestion' there.
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@kkoehne Got it!
Can this topic be moved as a whole? Or i have to recreate and then delete this one?
@Engelard there's no direct integration, so yes, you've to file things anew.
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