QPlainText Edit and text lines

[aarelovich]

Hello:

I was wondering if there is any way to make the cursor go to specific line number of a text written in QPlainTextEdit.

Thank you for any answers.

[high_flyer]

pQPlainTextEdit->textCursor->setPos().

A line number can be deduced from the number of new lines ('\n')

[JohannesMunk]

Linenumber: as in with our without taking the line wrapping into account?

Without:

int pos = plaintextedit->document()->findBlockByNumber(yourparagraphnumber).position();

int pos = plaintextedit->document()->findBlockByNumber(yourparagraphnumber).position();

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To set the cursor there:

QTextCursor cur = plaintextedit->textCursor();
cur.setPosition(pos);
plaintextedit->setTextCursor(cur);

QTextCursor cur = plaintextedit->textCursor();
cur.setPosition(pos);
plaintextedit->setTextCursor(cur);

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Johannes

[aarelovich]

Yes that was exactly what I wanted!

Thank you.

The thing is that I had found the findBlockbyNumber (or LineNumber, too) but I had not found the .position() property of the block to turn it into an integer with which to set the textCursor.

Thank you again!

[JohannesMunk]

You are welcome! No need to say thanks twice, though :-> Just use the forums thank button!

Happy coding!

Johannes