On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Tobias Hunger <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 30.07.2010 10:57, ext Danny Price wrote: > > TextMate is a very heavy-weight product. Ideally this Creator 'Lite' > > would just be a text editor with syntax highlighting (it doesn't really > > need auto-completion). > > Arent there lots of lightwight text editors with syntax highlighting > available already? Few that are cross platform and none that I know about that aren't ugly as sin and/or are as slow as a snail (Java). Why add another one? To me creator shines since it > understands the code I write. So some simple regular expression based > syntax highlighting is not enough. > That's exactly why it would be good :) > > Of course you can just take the C++ engine build into creator (just > include cplusplus.pri into your project, it is meant to be reusable) and > build a more light weight editor. Of course for the engine to work > properly you need to provide it with information like which other files > are there, where to look for files to include, etc. ... basically all > the stuff that makes a project:-) > > > Most importantly, it must launch really fast. The > > recent releases of Creator have started to become rather sluggish on > > startup; VisualStudio 2008 actually launches faster on my machine now > > than Creator which isn't good. > > Where does it take so much time? It feels pretty fast for me (less that > 3s). I did have trouble with sluggish startup for a while on windows > though. Turned out that my proxy setup in windows was to blame. Windows > insisted on figuring out by waiting for a timeout that I do not need a > proxy (automatic proxy configuration)... and it insisted on blocking > while doing this:-/ > I'll start Creator from the Start menu in Windows (or the dock on my Mac at home for that matter) and it can take up 10s to actually appear. I suspect it might be something to do with loading content from the web and both machines are on entirely different networks with good net connections. > -- > Tobias Hunger > Software Engineer > Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks > > Nokia gate5 GmbH > Firmensitz: Invalidenstr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin: HRB 106443 B > Umsatzsteueridentifikationsnummer: DE 812 845 193 > Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Halbherr, Karim Tähtivuori > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator >
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