External Tools

Be able to specify external tools which can be shell scripts which are import/export functions, wizards or custom build steps, can be fired via shortcut, and get information like selected text + cursor position, current file, current project etc

Deliveries

• An easy way for 3rd parties to extend Qt Creator functionality / integrate tools

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