We’re happy to announce the official release of version 1.6.0 of the Qt Extension for Visual Studio Code! After spending some time as pre-release 1.5.0 in the Marketplace, it’s now graduated to a full release. Let's have a look at what's new!
QML Debugging
This is the headline feature of the 1.6.0 release: You can now fully debug Qt Quick projects directly within VS Code. With this update, you can:
- Set breakpoints in your QML files
- Inspect the QML call stack and jump to call sites
- View the content of JavaScript variables and QML properties
- Step through your code interactively
Basically: everything you'd expect from a debugger.
Other Noteworthy Improvements
This release also includes several smaller enhancements and bug fixes across the extension suite.
As before, the Qt extension is a bundle of smaller extensions packaged together. Here are the highlights since the last release:
Changes in the qt-core extension:
- Fixed the
Cannot find qtcli executable error due to the missing permissions
- Added
"cmake.useCMakePresets": "never" to the recommended settings
The qtcli command line tool is used to create new projects or Qt-specific files. It has seen the following improvements.
- Added support for C++ class generation
- Added functionality to show all presets with the
preset ls command
- Added missing
CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD setting to QtQuick
- Modernized project and file templates
The qt-qml extension has seen the following changes.
- Introduced the
qt-qml.qmlls.useNoCMakeCalls configuration variable to disable CMake calls for QML Language Server
- Introduced the
qt-qml.qmlls.customArgs setting to allow users to pass custom arguments to QML Language Server
- Introduced
qt-qml.qmlls.customDocsPath. This setting overrides the default in either the selected kit or qtpaths
More details can be found in the changelogs on the marketplace:
If you encounter any bugs or have feedback on usability, please report them via our bug tracker. If there’s a feature you’d like to see, feel free to submit a suggestion there as well.
