Xcode Qt4 Custom Data Formatters (for viewing in the debugger)

[jkyle]

Hey Everyone,

Xcode makes a very nice IDE for Qt for those of use doing our work on a mac. And though Creator is also shaping up to be a very nice IDE, it's one more tool to learn.

It was irking me to no end that viewing the values of various QObjects wasn't possible in the Debugger. So I set out on a mission.

The result of the mission is plugin bundle I wrote that does just that. The supported data types are limited as I just got started, but it covers:

QString (displays the string)
QModelIndex (displays something like row: 1, col: 5)
QVariant (displays the toString() for it)
QFile (displays the assigned file path)


And I'm working on a QAbstractItemModel (I figure I'll show the metaobject's className property).

Works with both pointers and instances of those data types "out the box".

Anyway, during my searching I saw this come up quite a few times with no good solution for it, so here's my work:

http://github.com/jameskyle/Qt4DataFormatter