<![CDATA[How to retrieve text ?]]>I have some understanding of the concept , but I really need step by step explanation what is the code doing.
I have look at few examples and they do not explain what each class in trying to do .
And things are more confusing since my code is already running in QTextEdit object.
It would help to know what is each lineof code doing. At this point I am not concerned if the code copiles , I just need
verbal desription of each.

  1. QTextDocument instance does ... ( links to actuall QTextEdit "text" ? If so how ? )

  2. QTextCurson instance does... ( links to instance of QTextDocument physical cursor ?
    etc ....

  QTextDocument *document = new QTextDocument();
  QTextCursor cursor(document);
 // put visible cursor to the end of the line
  QTextCursor cursor = QTextEdit::textCursor();
  cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::StartOfLine); //::End);
  setTextCursor(cursor);
]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/139371/how-to-retrieve-textRSS for NodeSat, 24 Oct 2026 18:06:14 GMTFri, 16 Sep 2022 14:15:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to retrieve text ? on Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:08:01 GMT]]>QTextDocument *document = new QTextDocument(); // ^^^ a new empty QTextDocument QTextCursor cursor(document); // ^^^ an object that represents position in the text of the document above (there is none) // put visible cursor to the end of the line // ^^^ A QTextDocument is an in-memory structure representing a document, there is no "visible" QTextCursor cursor = QTextEdit::textCursor(); // ^^^ This should not compile, there is no static QTextEdit::textCursor() // If you went: QTextCursor cursor = textEdit->textCursor(); // then you would have an object that represented a location within the document that // the text edit is currently displaying a visible cursor at. // This is *not* the document created above. // The QTextDocument being displayed by a QTextEdit is obtained with textEdit->document() // https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtextedit.html#document-prop cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::StartOfLine); // Move the cursor object to point at the start of the line in the QTextDocument // object it is related to. // This does *not* move the visible cursor in the QTextEdit. setTextCursor(cursor); // Assuming this is called on the textEdit object then the visible cursor should // move to the location corresponding to the cursor object's location in the document. // In this case, where the start of the document line is present on the screen. // A document line , and a line on screen, do not necessarily mean the same thing // because a single document line can be wrapped.

Nothing in this code retrieves text, so I do not see how it is related to the question posed in the title.

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