Is there something like a "cursorForPosition" for QLineEdits?

[ZeHgS]

Hi everyone!

Is there something like a "cursorForPosition" for QLineEdits?

I want to implement a QLineEdit with functionality to detect where a mouse click occurred and respond accordingly. Do I need to use QTextEdits for this and make them look like QLineEdits?

Thanks a lot!

[Pl45m4]

@ZeHgS said in Is there something like a "cursorForPosition" for QLineEdits?:

where a mouse click occurred and respond accordingly

Use the mousePressEvent

[ZeHgS]

Thanks a lot for replying! How do I detect which word was clicked on, though? Or place the text cursor at the position

[Pl45m4]

@ZeHgS

You cant (out of the box). When you use mousePressEvents, you know where the click happened. The rest is on you what to do with this information.

By default the cursor is going where you click, right?!
LineEdit is a pretty simple input field. If you need further functionality to work with larger texts, you should have a look at QTextEdit or QPlainTextEdit.

[eyllanesc]

@ZeHgS Use https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qlineedit.html#cursorPositionAt

[ZeHgS]

@eyllanesc Thank you so much! I must be going blind. Thanks!

[Pl45m4]

@ZeHgS

This is where the cursor is, but you asked for mouseClicks to detect words?
The current cursor position is easy to determine like @eyllanesc wrote above.