Future Work

Planned features that are not allocated to a release yet.

(Features that have been implemented can be looked up in the Road Map.)

Injectors

• Mac bundle injector
• Static "injector"
• Pintool based injector
• Injectors using different Qt plug-in systems (a11y, QPA)
• Injector auto-detector in the launcher to find the best available one

General

• Show smart pointer refcounts?
• Show filesystem watchers?
• Show locale information. or application information.
• Show ClassInfo of available types.
• Show running threads
• Show running event loops
• Show pending events
• Show loaded translators.
• Add signal/slot tracking?

Core

• Support for multiple probes for different BIC configurations (debug vs. release, different compilers or Qt versions), and dynamic selection of the appropriate one.
• Add generic infrastructure for reporting detected problems in a central place, such as:
  • shortcut conflicts
  • modeltest issues
  • nested layout margins
  • dangling QStates
• Split the part that has to run in the process of the analyzed application and the frontend, to allow inspecting non-gui Qt apps as well as remote debugging
• Allow to overwrite/reset message handler

Tools

Model/View

• Runtime attachable model test
• Show selection models properly
• Integration of Steve's proxy model tests and model test recorder

Style Inspector

• Support style hints, layout spacing, sub-element rects
• Add QPaintBuffer paint introspection as done for QWidgets
• Allow to modify QStyleOption parameters
• Provide dummy widgets for styles that crash if the widget pointer is 0

Widgets

• Model shows object rather than layout hierarchy
• a WebInspector/Firebug like QSS debugger

Object Visualization

• Show signal/slot connections, and possibly also how often they are used

Statistical elements

• Eg. number of created objects of a certain type, number of send signals/events, timer frequencies, etc, mostly interesting for QML where there are no good high-level profiling tools yet.

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