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--- qt:monkey_studio [2011/04/02 17:37] – created mithat
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 ====== Monkey Studio ======
-[[http://www.monkeystudio.org/|Monkey Studio]] is a dedicated, Qt-centric IDE. I tried the version of Monkey Studio that is packaged with Ubuntu 10.10. I'll keep this short and sweet and say only that this is a promising project that needs a bit more UI development.
+[[http://www.monkeystudio.org/|Monkey Studio]] is a Qt-centric IDE and supports Qt projects in a number of languages. It seems to be well thought out with the exception of a couple things.
+First, rather than using the standard GDB debugger, it uses [[http://code.google.com/p/beaverdbg/|Beaver Debugger]]--a wrapper for GDB stripped out of Qt Creator. A Beaver Debugger is available for OS X and Windows, but there is no package available for Linux, either in the Debian repos or from the authors.
+Second, there is no template to make a Qt project with a form based on a *.ui-file. I'm pretty sure it's not a big deal to create such a template, but it would be nice if it existed by default. Starting with a Qt GUI project and then adding a Qt Form to it is a tedious and (at least for the one time I tried it) error-prone process.
+The integrated Qt Designer is well done. That along with support for lots of languages (including Python) makes this an appealing option. The fact that it's C++-based means it starts up pretty quickly (an issue with the Java-based IDEs). Hoping that Beaver support improves.
+===== TODO =====
+  * Add Beaver Debugger via PPA and see how well it works
+  * Creatd a **QMake GUI Project** template that is bare-bones but makes adding forms somewhat straightforward (ala Netbeans)