Switching from Qt Creator to CLion

Switching IDE's is not an easy thing. You are used to certain ways of doing things and you have strong muscle memories that need to be overcome.

Join Jesper Pedersen as he takes his first serious look at JetBrains' CLion after more than a decade with Qt Creator, showing what works well for Qt/CMake projects – and what still feels rough when you come from Qt Creator.

In this intro, you’ll see how to try CLion in a separate configuration, switch to a Qt Creator-style keymap, open and configure an existing Qt project, create new Qt Widgets projects and UI classes, and get a first taste of CLion’s debugging and Git integration that might just convince you to give it a real try.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:50 Initial setup

03:14 Starting with an existing project

06:03 Editing and navigating

08:27 QMake?

09:03 Starting a new project

14:32 The compile error

16:13 ESC key doesn't work

17:49 Debugging

19:40 Git

Links:

• QMake to CMake script
• qmake2cmake tool
• Presentation on QMake to CMake
• Bug report on include of UI file
• Link to download CLion (30-day free trial for all new users)
• CLion subscription plans
• All the CLion videos in this series