How to get the text of a complete in a combobox

Morado

Hi Can someone help me with my problem, I have a combobox that I fill with a QList and now I have generated a search engine with the help of the QCompleter, so far everything is fine, but I have edited it to make it visually more attractive, and it worked correctly until I have trouble selecting with the mouse one of the options that the QCompleter threw at me and the selection does not respect me, it only respects me if I give an Enter with the keyboard, but only for a moment, someone could help me solve my problem.

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
 qApp->setStyleSheet("QAbstractItemView#completerPopup {font: 15pt ;color: rgb(255, 255, 255);}");
}

    QCompleter *completer = new QCompleter(list, this);
    completer->setFilterMode(Qt::MatchContains);
    completer->setCaseSensitivity(Qt::CaseInsensitive);
    completer->popup()->setObjectName("completerPopup");
    ui->cobobox->setCompleter(completer);

I manage to make it work but I have to remove some lines of code that are the ones that help me edit the QCompleter as Pupop.

    QCompleter *completer = new QCompleter(list, this);
    completer->setFilterMode(Qt::MatchContains);
    completer->setCaseSensitivity(Qt::CaseInsensitive);
    ui->cobobox->setCompleter(completer);

The error it throws when I select is the following
Setting a QCompleter on non-editable QComboBox is not allowed.

JonB

@Morado said in How to get the text of a complete in a combobox:

Setting a QCompleter on non-editable QComboBox is not allowed.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qcombobox.html#editable-prop

This property holds whether the combo box can be edited by the user

By default, this property is false. The effect of editing depends on the insert policy.

Morado

Thanks for responding so quickly,I try this

ui->combobox->setInsertPolicy(QComboBox::InsertAtCurrent);

And with all its possible combinations:

QComboBox::InsertAtTop
QComboBox::InsertAtBottom
QComboBox::InsertAfterCurrent
QComboBox::InsertBeforeCurrent
QComboBox::InsertAlphabetically

But it did not give me any favorable results.
Or is it that I'm wrong about something?

JonB

@Morado
Did you do the setEditable(true) per the link? That is what makes the QComboBox editable. setInsertPolicy() is irrelevant.

The default QComboBox is just a dropdown non-editable list. It does not accept text input, so a QCompleter makes no sense. You have to set it editable to get an edit widget and a completer.

Morado

@JonB
I had just done it before you answered me, and it doesn't affect it in the same way.

ui->combobox->setEditable(true);
ui->combobox->setCompleter(completer);

or I am doing something wrong again?

Morado

@JonB

I was reviewing the documentation and enabling setEditable only allows me to write to the Combobox and I have already achieved this from the GUI, my problem is that it does not allow me to select from the popup with the mouse. But with keyboard yes.

JonB

@Morado
It was you who wrote

The error it throws when I select is the following

Setting a QCompleter on non-editable QComboBox is not allowed.

That's all I know.