Change only part of QLineEdit with input mask - possible?

[dpimka]

Hello!

I have a line edit with an input mask with, say, 5 characters.

Question is this: can I somehow make QLineEdit to allow to change only last 3 chars in accordance to mask, and leave the first 2 untouched - as they were set by initial setText()?

To rephrase: I need an input mask to be set on part of the text, while not allowing to change another part.

I guess this is impossible, but who knows, Qt has many tricks

TIA.

[shentian]

Use escaped characters in the inputMask to display unchangable text. This, for example displays "TestXXX", where you can only edit the "XXX" part.

lineEdit->setInputMask("\\T\\e\\s\\tAAA");
lineEdit->setText("TestXXX");

lineEdit->setInputMask("\\T\\e\\s\\tAAA");
lineEdit->setText("TestXXX");

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[dpimka]

Wow, isn't that cool
Thank you!

[dpimka]

Heh, now I have another question:

I need to paint part of the line edit's text in one color and other part in another color.
The only way I see is reimplementing paintEvent with all the drawing - frame, margins, text.

But maybe there's some quicker way?

[wysota]

No, QLineEdit doesn't allow you to use rich text.

[dpimka]

Ok, just figured out that this particular feature is not strictly needed, so it can be dropped