External Tools

Deliveries

• An easy way for 3rd parties to extend Qt Creator functionality / integrate tools
• User definable external tools (QTCREATORBUG-80)

Use cases

• Tools for forum nokia, like "upload code snippet"
• lupdate, lrelease
• The existing "open in external editor" functionality
• Pipe current selection through 'sort'
• Count code lines in current project?
• What are other use cases from Nokia internal?

What needs to be done

• Define how it could look like user and implementation wise
• How do other IDEs solve it?
• Implement it, document it