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diff --git a/doc/src/declarative/pics/qmldebugger-creator.png b/doc/src/declarative/pics/qmldebugger-creator.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index da1e22d..0000000 --- a/doc/src/declarative/pics/qmldebugger-creator.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/src/declarative/qdeclarativedebugging.qdoc b/doc/src/declarative/qdeclarativedebugging.qdoc index e409c3e..4ff7fde 100644 --- a/doc/src/declarative/qdeclarativedebugging.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/declarative/qdeclarativedebugging.qdoc @@ -63,58 +63,23 @@ When a transition doesn't look quite right, it can be helpful to view it in slow motion to see what is happening more clearly. The \l {Qt Declarative UI Runtime}{qml} tool provides a "Slow Down Animations" menu option to facilitate this. +\section1 Debugging with Qt Creator -\section1 The QML Inspector +\l{http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools}{Qt Creator} provides built-in +support for QML debugging. Open a QML project in Creator and enter Debug mode, +or click the "Start Debugging" option from the menu, and Creator will +show QML debugging information and options for your application, including +object inspection, property monitoring and application frame-rate analysis. -The \c qmldebugger tool provides an experimental inspector to aid with debugging. -It can be run as a Qt Creator plugin or as a standalone application. - -\section2 Qt Creator plugin - -The Qt Creator plugin currently builds against Qt Creator 1.3. - -To build the Qt Creator plugin: - -\list -\o Set an environment variable \c CREATOR_SRC_DIR that points to the Qt Creator - source directory -\o Set an environment variable \c CREATOR_BUILD_DIR that points to the Qt Creator - build directory -\o Run \c qmake on \c $QTDIR/tools/qmldebugger/qmldebugger.pro -\endlist - -This builds the plugin into your Qt Creator installation. - -The plugin adds a "QML Inspect" mode into Qt Creator that provides: - -\list -\o An object tree showing all objects and their children -\o The current property values for the object selected in the object tree - (this table is dynamically updated for all properties that have property changed - notifications) -\o An expression evaluator for querying and setting values dynamically -\o A table of watched properties (double-click on a property in the property - table to add it to the watch table) -\o A graph that shows the frame rate of your application -\endlist - - -To start the debugger, open a QML project and click the "QML Inspect" mode, then click the green -"play" button in the toolbar of the bottom-right debugger window. - -\image qmldebugger-creator.png - - -\section2 Standalone qmldebugger tool - -To run the standalone \c qmldebugger tool, set an environment variable \c QML_DEBUG_SERVER_PORT -to an available port number and run the \l {Qt Declarative UI Runtime}{qml} tool. For example: +Creator can be used to debug both local and remote QML applications. To +enable remote debugging, start the \l {Qt Declarative UI Runtime}{qml} tool +on the remote device with a debugging port defined, like this: \code QML_DEBUG_SERVER_PORT=3768 qml myqmlfile.qml \endcode -Then in another process, start the \c qmldebugger tool, enter the port number into the corresponding spinbox -in the top right hand corner, and press the "Connect" button. +In Creator, open the project settings pane and set the server and port +details for the remote device, then start debugging. */ |
