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  1. Qt Creator
  2. QTCREATORBUG-21406

hitting Esc in Designer mode switches to the XML editor

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    • Qt Creator 4.8.0-beta1
    • Editors, Widget Designer
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    Description

      If you double-click a UI file to open it, then hit the escape key, it switches to the XML editor view, which is not very useful (well maybe if somebody likes to edit XML a lot by hand, but I do it very rarely myself).  For me this is a reflex because I usually hit escape twice to get back to my C++ code: close the debugger, the error output from the compiler, and so on.  In Designer  it's disorienting that it doesn't work.  Then I usually correct this mistake by hitting control-W to close that file completely; because next time I want to open the UI file, I will just double-click it in the project tree again.  So we could say that the XML editor is too sticky: the workflow naturally leads to me seeing the raw XML, which I don't normally want to see, and it takes an extra step to get back to what I want to see.

      If you see that XML showing up in my presentation when I'm trying to show Designer, that will be why.  (I noticed this happening a lot while rehearsing for QtWS, and people complained: why did I show the useless XML code so much, so I had to explain why.)

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            con Eike Ziller
            srutledg Shawn Rutledge
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