Qt Creator Arduino configuration

This repository creates a template that allows you to configure Qt Creator as your Arduino's IDE.

Portuguese spearks / Pessoal de lingua portuguesa: Postei uma série de videos no youtube de como configurar todo seu ambiente de desenvolvimento, confira em https://www.youtube.com/user/cleitonsouza01/playlists

About Qt Creator

Qt Creator is a cross-platform IDE where you can develope on Windows, Linux or Mac. Qt Creator is advanced IDE that provides a lot of smart things to help you to develop more quickly and easily. Some main features of Qt Creator:

• Rapid code navigation tools
• Syntax highlighting and code completion
• Static code checking and style hints as you type
• Support for source code refactoring
• Context sensitive help
• Code folding
• Parenthesis matching and parenthesis selection modes

With all these and many more features, Qt Creator can be lightweight, and for me, is one of the best IDE's available.

About my template

This repository provides a template that allows you to configure Qt Creator as your Arduino's IDE.

What you need to use (pre-requisites):

• PC running Linux
• Windows and Mac can use it too, but some small changes are necessary
• In the future I will provide files ready to use in all environments
• Arduino IDE 1.6.3
  • http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
• Arduino-Makefile 1.3.4
  • https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile
• Qt Creator 3.3.1
  • http://www.qt.io/download-open-source
• GTKTerm version 0.99
  • Can be any other serial monitor, but I chose it because is very lightweight

Some screenshots

Boards supported and tested

Theoretically this template can support all boards that Arduino-MakeFile support, it means:

• Supports all official AVR-based Arduino boards
• Supports chipKIT
• Supports Teensy 3.x (via Teensyduino)

I already tested successfully with:

• Arduino Mega 2560
• Arduino Pro
• Arduino Uno

If you have tested any other boards, please tell me about your experience!

How install

In this repository you will find two folders:

• arduino_cpp_style
  • This folder contains a C++ style Arduino template
• arduino_sketch_style
  • This folder contains a Sketch style Arduino template
  • (the same style used in the official Arduino IDE)

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

1) Close Qt Creator

2) Execute the following commands in Terminal:

cd ~/Qt5.4.1/Tools/QtCreator/share/qtcreator/templates/wizards/
git clone https://github.com/cleitonsouza01/qt-creator-arduino

You should see something similar to this:

Cloning into 'qt-creator-arduino'...
remote: Counting objects: 30, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done.
remote: Total 30 (delta 9), reused 18 (delta 2), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (30/30), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Note:

• You may need to change the first command to match your Qt installation.
• My Qt installation was ~/Qt5.4.1/Tools/QtCreator/share/qtcreator/templates/wizards/
• A tip is to type in ~/Qt then hit [TAB] to get the shell to auto-complete stuff for you.

3) Open Qt Creator

4) Click on: File > New File or Project Select Arduino project

And then have fun!

Author

• Cleiton Souza (cleiton@tutamail.com)
• Jason Jorgenson (jjorgenson@gmail.com)

Similar works

I found one Qt template created by Philippe Lucidarme (http://5lair.free.fr) but it is based on an old version of Qt Creator / Arduino-Mk version, and it seems that Philippe no longer updates this template.