Qstring value does not appear in locals and watchers

[sanket.mehta]

Hi,

I have installed qt creator 1.3.1 on my windows xp machine.
I have created a project and want to debug some portion of code and want to check the value of local variables at run time.
As Qt creator provides facility like locals and watcher in debug mode, still it does not show me value of any QString variable or any list containing QString variables.
Values for all other data types are shown perfectly.
Will any one help me to figure out is there any setting to make it visible?

Thanks in advance,
Sanket

[wysota]

So you mean you can see contents of say... QRect variables but not QString variables?

[sanket.mehta]

Hey,

I don't know about QRect variable values.
I was just talking about primary data types like int, float, boolean etc..
Among these I can not see values of QString variables.

[wysota]

So you probably can't see any Qt classes which means you don't have a "debugging helper" built. Open Creator's settings, find the dialog that says something about a debugging helper and rebuild the helper.

[sanket.mehta]

Hi,

Thanks for reply.
I tried the same with rebuild helper.
But still I cannot see the value of string types.
Can you suggest me some other options?

[high_flyer]

either its what wysota said, or, you think QString is the same as char* - which is not.
Can you see the content of other NON natural types (classes)?
I hope you are aware you have to collapse the object tree in the debugger, and then look at the pointer pointing to the data itself.