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  • Is it possible to ask the text edit control to use a slightly tighter line spacing?

  • Is there any simple way to append text without adding a new line?

    • Thanks, David

    ]]>    https://forum.qt.io/topic/145047/qtextedit-questionsRSS for NodeMon, 17 Aug 2026 19:32:33 GMTThu, 11 May 2023 08:46:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to QTextEdit questions on Thu, 11 May 2023 13:42:18 GMT]]>@JonB Thanks for the pointer

    Here's what I did for the spacing etc.

    //
// Before any messages are written to the log, reduce the line spacing a bit
// and reduce the font size by one
//
QTextBlockFormat bf = messageLog->textCursor().blockFormat();
bf.setLineHeight(85, QTextBlockFormat::ProportionalHeight);
messageLog->textCursor().setBlockFormat(bf);
QFont font{ messageLog->currentFont() };
font.setPointSize(font.pointSize() - 1); font.setWeight(QFont::Medium);
messageLog->setFont(font);

    and for appending:

    messageLog->moveCursor(QTextCursor::End);
messageLog->insertPlainText(message);
    ]]>    https://forum.qt.io/post/757904https://forum.qt.io/post/757904Thu, 11 May 2023 13:42:18 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to QTextEdit questions on Thu, 11 May 2023 08:54:31 GMT]]>@Perdrix said in QTextEdit questions:

    Is it possible to ask the text edit control to use a slightly tighter line spacing?

    Many examples from Google qtextedit set line spacing, such as https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10250533/set-line-spacing-in-qtextedit ?

    Is there any simple way to append text without adding a new line?

    Since QTextEdit::append() "Appends a new paragraph" I would guess you need to use a QTextCursor to do something like insert text at the end of the existing last paragraph?

    ]]>    https://forum.qt.io/post/757858https://forum.qt.io/post/757858Thu, 11 May 2023 08:54:31 GMT