Emulating command console
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I want it to be like the windows cmd, you write a command and then it gives back information but you cant edit what already is writed, you can only edit the text that you are introducing for the next command and i dont know how to do that. Well thanks and any idea is welcome!
-Noele1995
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Subclass QPlainTextEdit or QTextEdit and handle key press events yourself; up key for command history, enter for line execute, and so on.
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That was my first option but i dont really know how to do that.
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[quote author="Seamus Boyle" date="1377418770"]Subclass QPlainTextEdit or QTextEdit and handle key press events yourself; up key for command history, enter for line execute, and so on.[/quote]
Should not be required, I think.
Just connect a signal to QLineEdit::retrunPressed(). This will tell you when the user has typed a new command into the LineEdit. Then just do whatever needs to be done and append the desired output (logging) into the QPlainTextEdit. For details see "Signals and Slots":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/signalsandslots.html
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Yes i know to do that, actually thats what i did, but i wanted that window to look like it had a console inside of it but it woked fine.
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How can i make in the QLineEdit that if i prees up arrow it shows me the last command i wrote there?
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Have a look at QLineEdit::setCompleter() and at QCompleter.
@QStringList wordList;
wordList << "alpha" << "omega" << "omicron" << "zeta";QLineEdit *lineEdit = new QLineEdit(this);
QCompleter *completer = new QCompleter(wordList, this);
completer->setCaseSensitivity(Qt::CaseInsensitive);
lineEdit->setCompleter(completer);@The "wordList" would simply be the list of recently used commands.
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Also check the available QCompleter::CompletionMode values!