Qt Designer vs Qt Quick Designer vs Qt Creator?

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temporary_user_name picture temporary_user_name · Aug 29, 2014 · Viewed 44.8k times · Source

I have seen references to all three of these applications on various parts of the Qt website but am completely unclear as to the exact differences between them and whether they are actually separate things or just different names for the same thing, or the name changed over time? Or is one no longer supported? What's the deal with these?

Answer

MrEricSir picture MrEricSir · Aug 29, 2014

Qt Creator is Qt's IDE. You don't have to use it, but it greatly simplifies Qt development.

Qt Designer is a graphical tool that lets you build QWidget GUIs. Qt Quick Designer is similar, but for building QML GUIs. Both are built in to Qt Creator.

This is explained in a little more detail over at Wikipedia.

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