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[Solved]Change text cursor color in QTextEdit

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    Macro
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    I will update the screen shot of my output for your reference..

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      Macro
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      !http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/296/mainwindowr.png(Text Edit with White Color and Text Cursor with White Color )!

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        Acce0ss
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        I used coding, modified the demo called textedit.

        I will update the code I used for color change and so on when I get back home.

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          AlekseyOk
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          use style sheet as Riz proposed

          @
          QTextEdit
          {
          color: white;
          background-color: black;
          }
          @

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            Acce0ss
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            Here is the code I used to change the colors:

            @QPalette p = textEdit->palette();
            p.setColor(QPalette::Base, QColor(0, 0, 0));
            textEdit->setPalette(p);

            textEdit->setFrameShape(QFrame::NoFrame);
            textEdit->setTextColor(QColor(255,255,255));
            @
            If I use a style sheet, is it possible to change the colors on the run too? The background color won't change but text color might.

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              AlekseyOk
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              Yes, you can change style sheet at runtime:

              @
              QFile file("style.css");
              if(file.open(QFile::ReadOnly))
              {
              QString styleSheet(file.readAll());
              widget->setStyleSheet(styleSheet);
              file.close();
              }
              @

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                Acce0ss
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                Thanks Riz and Aleksey, it works now, using this
                @
                textEdit->setStyleSheet(
                "QTextEdit"
                "{"
                "color: white;"
                "background-color: black;"
                "}"
                );@

                So the cursor color can be set by setting color: whatever in a stylesheet.. But apparently not with setTextColor() or any other function of textEdit.. weird, but I'm glad it works now.

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                  Macro
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                  Yeah Aleksey0k is Right...!!! We can change the StyleSheet at Runtime too....

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                    Macro
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                    Your Welcome.. Happy Coding... :) Simple way of coding is..

                    @TextEdit->setStyleSheet("background-color: black; color : white");@

                    Thats all.... No Need for going for a QPalette and all..

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                      Macro
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                      If you are using setTextColor(),

                      @TextEdit->setTextColor(Qt::white);@

                      will change the Text Color Alone. But the Text Cursor will remain the default Black in color...

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