Keyboard Shortcuts

Qt Design Studio has various keyboard shortcuts that speed up your development process. You can add more shortcuts if your favorite combination is missing. In addition, you can specify your own keyboard shortcuts for some functions that can be easily performed with a mouse, and therefore do not appear in menus or have default keyboard shortcuts. For example, selecting and deleting words or lines in an editor.

To view all functions available in Qt Design Studio and the keyboard shortcuts defined for them, select Edit > Preferences > Environment > Keyboard. The shortcuts are listed by category. To find a keyboard shortcut in the list, enter a function name or shortcut in the Filter field.

The shortcuts that are displayed in red color are associated with several functions. Qt Design Studio executes the function that is available in the current context. If several functions are available for the same shortcut at a time, there is a conflict and Qt Design Studio cannot execute any function.

A keyboard shortcut might also conflict with a shortcut that a Window manager uses for its own purposes. In that case, Qt Design Studio shortcuts do not work. Typically, you can configure the shortcuts in the window manager, but if that is not allowed, you can change the Qt Design Studio shortcuts.

To override the platform default value that determines whether keyboard shortcuts are shown in the labels of context menu items, select Edit > Preferences > Environment > Interface. The label of the Show keyboard shortcuts in context menus check box indicates whether the platform default value is on or off.

Configuring Keyboard Shortcuts

To customize a keyboard shortcut:

1. Select Edit > Preferences > Environment > Keyboard.
2. Select a command from the list.
3. In the Key Sequence field, you have the following options:
   • Enter the shortcut key you want to associate with the selected command.
   • Select Record, press the keys to use as the keyboard shortcut, and select Stop Recording when you are done.
4. To assign multiple keyboard shortcuts to a function, select Add, and enter or record an additional key combination.
5. To revert to the default shortcut, select Reset.

Qt Design Studio allows you to use different keyboard shortcut mapping schemes:

• To import a keyboard shortcut mapping scheme, click Import and select the .kms file that has the keyboard shortcut mapping scheme you want to import.
• To export the current keyboard shortcut mapping scheme, click Export and select the location where you want to save the exported .kms file.

Default Keyboard Shortcuts

The following tables list the default keyboard shortcuts. They are categorized by actions.

General Keyboard Shortcuts

Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Design Mode Keyboard Shortcuts

You can use the following keyboard shortcuts when editing QML files in the Design mode.

Debugging Keyboard Shortcuts

Project Keyboard Shortcuts

Help Keyboard Shortcuts

Version Control Keyboard Shortcuts