How to copy highlighted text from QTextEdit, PyQt6

WorldTeacher

I have an application designed in QtDesigner and in it, there's a QTextEdit in which I put data from a query. I want to allow the user to select and copy text using the shortcut ctrl+c, but I can't seem to get it to work. The quick search I've done only shows examples on how to do it using buttons.

Can I enable the copying using the shortcut? And if yes, how would I do it?

Any answer is appreciated.

JonB

@WorldTeacher
It should be working as-is, no "examples". You should be able to select text, press Ctrl+C, and then paste (Ctrl+V) text back into the QTextEdit or elsewhere since it is on your clipboard.

Assuming you are using a platform where Ctrl+C is the "copy shortcut".

jsulm

@WorldTeacher For me copying text via Strg-C from QTextEdit work just fine out of the box (Linux).

WorldTeacher

@JonB I'm on Windows 10 and currently, whenever I press ctrl+c, it doesn't copy the text I've marked.

I'll do a quick test to see if a hunch I have is correct.

WorldTeacher

@JonB I thought it might have something to do with me running the application directly from the .py file, so I built the application into an .exe, but copying still doesn't work. Here's how the QTextEdit is configured
is there anything I need to change?

JonB

@WorldTeacher
Every property you see whose name is in bold means it is set to something other than the default.

You might try:

focusPolicy: change off NoFocus?
inputMethodHints: change off ImhNone

But these are literally wild guesses.

You can see in textInteractionFlags that it's set for "text selectable by mouse or keyboard*, which looks right. Instead of keyboard Ctrl+C did you try right-click on selected text, does context menu offer Copy?

Try creating a brand new QTextEdit and don't change anything at all on it. Does that work?

jsulm

@JonB said in How to copy highlighted text from QTextEdit, PyQt6:

focusPolicy: change off NoFocus?

Agree
@WorldTeacher If the widget can't have focus then shortcuts will not work...

JonB

@jsulm said in How to copy highlighted text from QTextEdit, PyQt6:

If the widget can't have focus then shortcuts will not work...

Ah ha! :)

WorldTeacher

@JonB @jsulm Changing focusPolicy from NoFocus to ClickFocus made the trick , thanks for the help.

Originally, I used the NoFocus to disable tabbing into the field but some time after that I found the disable tab and I forgot to change the other settings back to default...