Draw vertical Line in QTextEdit

[ericV]

Hi there,

I am in the process of writing a custom Code /Script Editor. An i thought i would be nice to have a "vertical - line" drwan along the right side of the "Text" as a page delimiter.

I have tried to find something on this but i guess im not using the right Keywords.

I found something while goting through the list of possible things provided by the syntaxcompleter:

QTextEdit::VLine
QTextEdit::HLine

But i have no clue waht i can do with these... (and even if they are what im thinking about) I havent been able to find them in the documentation... so I ask here

If anyone can give me a tip on how to acomplish this, id be grateful.

[wysota]

I don't think you'd want to use these... You probably have to draw a regular line using QPainter in appropriate place of the viewport.

[ericV]

Thanks for the sudgestion.... i will try it with the QPainter

Edit:
Cant seem to get it to work.... it compiles but there is no line ...
i wrote this in my constructor for the editor:

QPainter linePainter(editor);
 
int y1 = editor->rect().topLeft().y();
int y2 = editor->rect().bottomLeft().y();
int x = editor->rect().topLeft().x();
x += QFontMetrics(f).width("x")*70;
 
QLine vLine = QLine(x,y1,x,y2) ;
 
linePainter.drawLine(vLine);

QPainter linePainter(editor);

int y1 = editor->rect().topLeft().y();
int y2 = editor->rect().bottomLeft().y();
int x = editor->rect().topLeft().x();
x += QFontMetrics(f).width("x")*70;

QLine vLine = QLine(x,y1,x,y2) ;

linePainter.drawLine(vLine);

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[wysota]

It doesn't work like that. You have to paint the line from within the paint event each time your widget is redrawn.