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  • S Simmania

    @marktuan

    The thing is that when I start coding it happens that some line may give an error and I do not know how to solve it.
    Then I would like to be able to ask AI what is wrong.

    I guess a separate AI is not handy for that, because it needs to be able to read the context (more project files).

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    @Simmania said in Which development tools to use when I want some AI assistance?:

    Then I would like to be able to ask AI what is wrong.

    I guess I am a different generation from you, but what happened to figuring it out for yourself? Even Googling and reading what you come across, rather than just getting an answer from an AI? IMHO you learn so much extra this way. It's even enjoyable! :)

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    • S Simmania

      Hi,

      I want to start a big project using Qt with an QML based UI. I'm on my own and QML is new for me. Therefore I want to use AI to help me. Not to create the code. Not to take design decisions. Just to assist me. I should be able to ask how thinks can be done, advice me for possible solutions, help me solve bugs, etc.

      I wonder what the best approach for this would be.

      QtCreator with QT Assitance?
      Not sure if QT Assistance is smart enough. I know it can do code completion and such. But if I understand correctly, it does not have knowledge of the whole project. So it can not help me project wise.
      I think QT Assitance is not supported in the community version. But is it in the Small Business version?

      VSCode with some AI tool (like CoPilot)?
      Anybody experience with this? Can I use VSCode for QML based Qt applications? Is it wise to do so? Or should I use QtCreator at any time for an userfriendly programming experience?

      Cursor?
      Best tool for project wise help?
      But does it support Qt?

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      @Simmania I use VS code with Claude on Linux to make Qt6 qml projects. The quality of qml code is not great and I have to make a lot of changes. But the code generated by Claude often works. Better to get some deep knowledge of QML by yourself.

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      • S Simmania

        @marktuan

        The thing is that when I start coding it happens that some line may give an error and I do not know how to solve it.
        Then I would like to be able to ask AI what is wrong.

        I guess a separate AI is not handy for that, because it needs to be able to read the context (more project files).

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        • JonBJ JonB

          @Simmania said in Which development tools to use when I want some AI assistance?:

          Then I would like to be able to ask AI what is wrong.

          I guess I am a different generation from you, but what happened to figuring it out for yourself? Even Googling and reading what you come across, rather than just getting an answer from an AI? IMHO you learn so much extra this way. It's even enjoyable! :)

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          @JonB said in Which development tools to use when I want some AI assistance?:

          @Simmania said in Which development tools to use when I want some AI assistance?:

          Then I would like to be able to ask AI what is wrong.

          I guess I am a different generation from you, but what happened to figuring it out for yourself? Even Googling and reading what you come across, rather than just getting an answer from an AI? IMHO you learn so much extra this way. It's even enjoyable! :)

          Well it is just the modern way of googling, isn't it? I'm not asking it to write code.
          And I want to spend more time on the creative process rather then on finding out what is wrong. And I will learn each time I get an answer.

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          • S Simmania

            Hi,

            I want to start a big project using Qt with an QML based UI. I'm on my own and QML is new for me. Therefore I want to use AI to help me. Not to create the code. Not to take design decisions. Just to assist me. I should be able to ask how thinks can be done, advice me for possible solutions, help me solve bugs, etc.

            I wonder what the best approach for this would be.

            QtCreator with QT Assitance?
            Not sure if QT Assistance is smart enough. I know it can do code completion and such. But if I understand correctly, it does not have knowledge of the whole project. So it can not help me project wise.
            I think QT Assitance is not supported in the community version. But is it in the Small Business version?

            VSCode with some AI tool (like CoPilot)?
            Anybody experience with this? Can I use VSCode for QML based Qt applications? Is it wise to do so? Or should I use QtCreator at any time for an userfriendly programming experience?

            Cursor?
            Best tool for project wise help?
            But does it support Qt?

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            Hey @Simmania,

            Qt AI Assistant is supposedly faring as good or better than using some AI without it, thus a strong recommendation from my side:

            https://www.qt.io/development/tools/ai-assistant

            https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-qtaiassistant.html

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              Since I couldn’t figure out how to add it through Qt Creator, I open VS Code on my side screen and use that instead. It’s a simple solution, but it works. It can modify the project as needed.

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              • Joe von HabsburgJ Joe von Habsburg

                Since I couldn’t figure out how to add it through Qt Creator, I open VS Code on my side screen and use that instead. It’s a simple solution, but it works. It can modify the project as needed.

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                @Joe-von-Habsburg said in Which development tools to use when I want some AI assistance?:

                Since I couldn’t figure out how to add it through Qt Creator

                Surely the AI can help you with that? ;-)

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                • JonBJ JonB

                  @Joe-von-Habsburg said in Which development tools to use when I want some AI assistance?:

                  Since I couldn’t figure out how to add it through Qt Creator

                  Surely the AI can help you with that? ;-)

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                  @JonB said in Which development tools to use when I want some AI assistance?:

                  Surely the AI can help you with that

                  :D

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                  • S Simmania

                    Hi,

                    I want to start a big project using Qt with an QML based UI. I'm on my own and QML is new for me. Therefore I want to use AI to help me. Not to create the code. Not to take design decisions. Just to assist me. I should be able to ask how thinks can be done, advice me for possible solutions, help me solve bugs, etc.

                    I wonder what the best approach for this would be.

                    QtCreator with QT Assitance?
                    Not sure if QT Assistance is smart enough. I know it can do code completion and such. But if I understand correctly, it does not have knowledge of the whole project. So it can not help me project wise.
                    I think QT Assitance is not supported in the community version. But is it in the Small Business version?

                    VSCode with some AI tool (like CoPilot)?
                    Anybody experience with this? Can I use VSCode for QML based Qt applications? Is it wise to do so? Or should I use QtCreator at any time for an userfriendly programming experience?

                    Cursor?
                    Best tool for project wise help?
                    But does it support Qt?

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                    @Simmania With Qt Creator 20 you can use the ACP Client to connect to an ACP Agent like Claude Agent, Codex CLI, or OpenCode and do any AI work.

                    The ACP Client plugin is part of the OpenSource Qt Creator.

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