Qt Creator 4.2 Launches with New Qt SCXML Editor Module, Better CMake Support

Today, December 14, 2016, the Qt Company was pleased to announce the final release of the open-source, free, and cross-platform Qt Creator 4.2 IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Qt Creator 4.2 arrives approximately three and a half months after the previous, and also the first, maintenance update in the 4.x stable series. As expected, it's full of cool features, starting with the brand-new Qt SCXML Editor module that promises to let application developer create state machines from State Chart XML, as well as to embed them into Qt Quick and Qt C++ projects. It can be enabled from Help -> About Plugins.

"It was released as Technical Preview in Qt 5.7 and will be released fully supported with Qt 5.8," reveals Alessandro Portale in today's announcement. "Qt Creator 4.2 now supplements the Qt SCXML module by offering a graphical editor fo...