1. Introduction

JcQt4develop (free software) is a simple IDE for Qt4 Open Source on Linux and Window systems.

The first versions have been developped with Qt4.1.1 Open Source on Windows and MinGW and with Qt4.2.1 Open Source on Linux.

The version 0.4 has been developped with Qt 4.3.3 Open Source Edition on Linux and Windows

It is composed of two principal parts :

• this software was made because it was difficult to use the "Qt4.1.1 command prompt" supplied with Qt4 (on my Windows ME system, the only last 50 lines are displayed and it is very, very difficult to read the compiler's messages when errors occur !) and to replace it by commands on menu and tool bars allowing the user to invoke qmake -project, qmake and make, the compiler's messages being displayed on a window at the bottom of the main window (without limitation of the number of lines) ;
• a MDI text editor with text highlightning (coming from Qt4.1.1 examples) which allows to edit sources texts - the characters' encoding responds to standard ISO 8859-1.

It has also commands allowing to launch Qt assistant, Qt Designer, Qt Linguist and to create/update translation files.

For more details, see 2 Installation and 3 Usage.

1.1 Changes

Version 0.4 :

• characters' encoding for editors : standard norme ISO 8859-1.

Version 0.3 :

• Command Run added to project menu
• New toolbar Project
• Commands Show/hide the toolbars added to Window menu and command Show/Hide the compiler messages window placed on Window menu instead of Project menu
• Compiler messages window closable, movable and floatable
• The modified source files may be saved before building the project according to the user preferences
• Same source files for Linux and Windows

Version 0.2 :

• Direct access to the line of the source file which is indicated by the compiler's message by double click on this message.