QTextEdit - how to capture the actual "selection changed " text ?

Anonymous_Banned275

Am I using wrong widget ?

I am using "system" call to fill QTextEdit.
Then I need to select and process specific text.
Putting a mouse on ANY part of the desired text generates
"selection changed" signal, works fine...

How do I retrieve the actual text ?

JonB

@AnneRanch
The whole of the text is available through textEdit->toPlainText().
The selected text is available through textEdit->textCursor().selectedText() or textEdit->textCursor().selection().toPlainText().

Separately.
Presumably you had to write or find some code to capture the output from a system() call to get it into a QTextEdit. And it involved doing something with stdout. The Qt way of doing this can be reduced to (no error checking):

QProcess process;
process.start("/bin/ls", QStringList() << "-la");    // example for: system("/bin/ls -la")
process.waitForFinished();
textEdit->setPlainText(process.readAllStandardOutput());

Anonymous_Banned275

This does not work - no data retrieved.
QString textSelection = ui->textEdit_6->textCursor().selectedText();

This works fine , BUT I do not need ALL text, just selected one.

textSelection = ui->textEdit_6->toPlainText();

JonB

@AnneRanch said in QTextEdit - how to capture the actual "selection changed " text ?:

QString textSelection = ui->textEdit_6->textCursor().selectedText();

It should do, assuming text has been selected there, like dragging the mouse over it so that you see the selected text highlighted. You can try the alternative ui->textEdit_6->textCursor().selection().toPlainText() though it should return the same result.

Anonymous_Banned275

@JonB I still think I am using wrong widget / signal. I can only position and click the mouse. I cannot highlight the text - the positioning of mouse overrides that.