I would like to launch URLs from a QTextEdit widget. The URLs are custom styled. I have made a naive attempt:

Writing text to the QTextEdit:
Qt Code: 
  1. bool Text::WriteText( const QStringRef& str, bool inurl )    // Text is "public QTextEdit", inurl is true if we are appending an URL
  2. {
  3.   if( !str.isEmpty() )
  4.   {
  5.     if( inurl )
  6.     {
  7.       QTextCharFormat  cf(currentCharFormat());
  8.  
  9.       cf.setAnchorHref(str.toString());
  10.       mergeCurrentCharFormat(cf);
  11.     }
  12.  
  13.     insertPlainText(str.toString());
  14.   }
  15.  
  16.   return true;
  17. }
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mouse click (debugging version for now, launch iceweasel when it will work):
Qt Code: 
  1. void Text::mousePressEvent( QMouseEvent *event )
  2. {
  3.   bool bb;
  4.  
  5.   if( event->buttons() == Qt::LeftButton )
  6.   {
  7.     QTextCursor     cu(cursorForPosition(event->pos()));
  8.     QTextCharFormat cf(cu.charFormat());
  9.     QString         url(cf.anchorHref());
  10.  
  11.     bb = url.isEmpty();
  12.  
  13.     QTextEdit::mousePressEvent(event);
  14.   }
  15. }
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Works ... almost. If I click a URL in the text window, the "url" string contains the URL. If I click another URL, I get another URL correctly. But if I click a non-URL text, I get the last URL clicked. Not acceptable. What am I doing wrong?