New Release - ROS Qt Creator 4.9.1 with ROS2 Support!

We are pleased to announce the release of the ROS Qt Creator Plug-in for Qt Creator 4.9 on Xenial and Bionic. The ROS Qt Creator Plug-in creates a centralized location for ROS tools to increase efficiency and simplify tasks.

Perf Flame Graph (Tutorial)

Highlights:

• Qt Creator 4.9 introduces several new features and improvements to existing capabilities.
  • Generic Programming Language Support (Python Support!)
    • This was experimental in 4.8 but is now fully supported.
  • Perf Profiling
    • This a powerful tool for profiling software running on linux.

• ROS Plug-in introduces a few new features and bug fixes
  • Upgraded to Qt Creator 4.9
  • Added ROS2 Colcon Support!
  • Added support for custom installations for ROS. These setting can be configured in the setting page.
  • Ability to modify the build environment under build settings
    • Qt Creator does not load environment variables from the .bashrc so they need to be added to the build environment manually.
  • Updated Documentation
    • FAQ - How to set C++ code style to match ROS Style
  • New tutorials
    • Perf Performance Analysis
    • Running test from Qt Creator

ROS settings - Add custom ROS install location