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  1. Qt Creator
  2. QTCREATORBUG-20665

Allow for setting the font for output windows for fixed pitch

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    • P3: Somewhat important
    • Qt Creator 4.10.0-beta1
    • Qt Creator 4.4.1
    • All Other Issues
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    • Win 7 SP1 32-bit, using the Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition toolchain

    • Windows
    • ee801a0eb598769715fb6282b984e8c82eaf37bd

    Description

      I like to run Cloc (for Count Lines of Code) as an external tool.  Here's the command, for those interested.  Executable:

      F:\Programming\CLOC (Count Lines Of Code)\cloc-1.70.exe
      

      Arguments (the tricky part):

      --not-match-f "\(.*\)" %{CurrentProject:Path}
      

      When the report shows up in "General Messages", the columns are all askew.  I can copy and paste its output into Notepad++, and the columns line up nicely.

      I'd like for them to line up nicely in QtCreator as well.  While there is theoretically a way to make it happen by passing QtCreator a style sheet argument or with styles, I have no idea where to begin; and it is not something readily available to the user.  While I can choose a font for the editor, I don't see a way to do it with these other output windows.  The results show up in the "General Messages" window, but I could see wanting to do this for others, like "Application Output", "Compile Output", "Version Control" and "Text Results".  E.g. the output of a bunch of compiles, a link and a few other things can be dense and hard to wade through - and setting the font might improve its readability.

      None of this stops QtCreator from being a fine development environment for me, but it's a logical extension of what you already have, and would enhance its usability for me.

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