Qlineedit: uneditable text + editable text

[blossomsg]

Hello guys,
I hope all of you are doing great.

In qlineedit i need a way to keep a
static text in the beginning and after those characters i want to mention any text(editable text)

example

above example is from qt designer
i disabled frames from lineedit and label
and placed it besides each other

But i am assuming there must be some effective way as well

Thanks

[JonB]

@blossomsg
If your text is supposed to be a separate label at the left that would be easiest.

If you really mean you want text to be inside the QLineEdit and "stick" there, you would have to subclass QLineEdit and do whatever to keep it there while the user edits, e.g. never let the cursor go left into it, or something similar.

[blossomsg]

Hello @JonB
Thank you for the reply,
i have never tried subclassing specifically qlineedit, combobox or anything to modify
an example would be a great help, or if there is any page to go through, can you please share

[JonB]

@blossomsg
Have you subclassed anything in C++? That is needed in much Qt stuff.

A couple of the simplest examples I could spot are:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38958873/a-simple-subclass-of-qwidget-doesnt-work-as-a-qwidget
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37454998/subclassing-widgets-in-qt-designer

Don't worry about the problem the posters there are asking about, just look at the few lines in their code which do the subclassing.

But really you just need to know about C++ subclassing, and that's beyond the scope of a reply in this forum :)

[blossomsg]

Hey @JonB
Sorry for not informing earlier but i am working in pyside2(python3.8)

[JonB]

@blossomsg
So you need to do subclassing in Python! It's the same principle, different syntax. You can Google for something like python qt widget subclass if you want to find Qt examples.

[blossomsg]

I avoided the subclassing as it did not give me desired output
went with simple approach
closing ticket