qtcreator: how to write in a text frame widget by the program? [solved]

[dsyleixa123]

qtcretor/designer:
how to write in a text frame widget by the program? (no extra window/no extra box)
It should be integrated into the main window, just like labels or buttons, and should be able to scroll automatically for either new line, feat. a vertical and a horizontal scroll bar.

[dsyleixa123]

PS,
I can d+d TextEdit or PlainTextEdit to my form, but I have no idea how to
ui->PlainTextEdit->TextColor(black);
ui->PlainTextEdit->Writeln("Hello World");

[procount]

ui->PlainTextEdit->setStyleSheet("{color: black}"); https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/style ... mples.html
ui->PlainTextEdit->setPlainText("Hello World"); https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qplai ... mbers.html

[dsyleixa123]

hi,
thanks, I now get 1 single "Hello Word"
But if I do that repeatedly, I do not get many of them, one after the other

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Hello WordHello WordHello WordHello WordHello WordHello WordHello WordHello Word

and also not beneath each other liike using writeln("Hello Word"), i.e. seperated by a "\n"

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Hello Word
Hello Word
Hello Word
Hello Word
Hello Word

also if I try instead "Hello World\n"
theres only just 1 single

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Hello Word

and that's it

[dsyleixa123]

just found out:
ui->PlainTextEdit->appendPlainText
makes line feeds in between


but how to write anything just behind one another?

[dsyleixa123]

weird that there is no simple print/println funcion available, preferably formattable by stdio sprintf parameters, and automatically writing 1 string behind another...

[Paeryn]

There is insertPlainText() which inserts the text at the current cursor position (if the cursor is a selection then the selection is replaced with the text). The edit box's current cursor can be obtained with

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EditBox->textCursor()

Infact insertPlainText() is a convenience function which does

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EditBox->insertPlainText(text_to_insert);
// is equivalent to
EditBox->textCursor().insertText(text_to_insert);

TextCursor is of the type QTextCursor and has all the methods for defining where in the edit field the cursor is at.

[dsyleixa123]

thank you!

as my EditBox is called "PlainTextEdit", so IIUC: one needs 2 commands to write 1 string after the other

for write in PlainTextEdit (flowing text)

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#define Qwrite(str)  { ui->PlainTextEdit->textCursor(); ui->PlainTextEdit->insertPlainText(str); }

for writeln (\n) in PlainTextEdit (wordwrap):

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#define Qwriteln(str)   { ui->PlainTextEdit->appendPlainText(str); }

cumbersome - but correct?

Now perhaps sort of an extra gotoxy(x,y) to move the cursor to (x,y) would be nice 8)

[Paeryn]

thank you!

as my EditBox is called "PlainTextEdit", so IIUC: one needs 2 commands to write 1 string after the other

for write in PlainTextEdit (flowing text)

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#define Qwrite(str)  { ui->PlainTextEdit->textCursor(); ui->PlainTextEdit->insertPlainText(str); }

You don't need the ui->PlainTextEdit->textCursor(); here, it just returns the QTextCursor but you throw that away (you don't assign it to a variable or use it in any way). PlainTextEdit->insertPlainText() calls the insertText() method of PlainTextEdit's QTextCursor for you.

Now perhaps sort of an extra gotoxy(x,y) to move the cursor to (x,y) would be nice 8)

There are quite a few methods you can call on a QTextCursor to move it to your desired location within the contents of the edit box, see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextcursor.html

[dsyleixa123]

thank you for your explanations!
Also thank you for your link (I actually knew that link already), but those tons of stuff are conpletely overburdening and confusing...

[dsyleixa123]

IIUC, there are only relative move actions (up, down, left, right,...), no absolute (x,y) for (rownumber, linenumber)
(enum QTextCursor::MoveOperation)

[Paeryn]

You can move to an absolute position within the document with

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QTextCursor::setPosition(int pos, QTextCursor::MoveMode m = MoveAnchor)

Setting it to an arbitrary line and column (assuming by line y you mean block y and by column x you mean xth character of block y) then you could always do this to position the cursor at (column x, line y) assuming both line and column are 1-based (i.e. start at 1 rather than 0)

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    QTextCursor cursor = ui->plainTextEdit->textCursor();
    cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::Start);
    if (y > 1)
         cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextBlock, QTextCursor::MoveAnchor, y-1);
    if (x > 1)
        cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextCharacter, QTextCursor::MoveAnchor, x-1);
    ui->plainTextEdit->setTextCursor(cursor); // move the edit's cursor to the new position
    ui->plainTextEdit->insertPlainText("*");

I moved the widget's cursor at the end so that plainTextEdit->insertPlainText() will insert at the selected position.
movePosition() will return false if it fails to make the requested number of movements (like reaching end-of-document).

[dsyleixa123]

thank you very much!
It's not urgent for me right now but I'll keep it in mind if I once will need a text spreadsheet, but ftm it's too complicated tbh...