Hi there,
thanks for the tipp to build a test case. Indeed, a similar application with only one QTextEdit runs just fine. After two more hours of debugging I found this to be the problem:
@setCentralWidget(ui->tabWidgetMain);@
Due to this (experimentally induced) line of code, the texEditPAD was not visible during runtime! (Just the tabWidget is visible, nothing else.)
Thus, any call to any function of that TextEdit was doomed to fail.
After removing the "setCentralWidget" line, it works fine.
Thanks for your replies,
wumpus