Problem while moving QTextCursor

Abdeljalil

i have an action called bold, when i select text then run this action this code will run:
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void MarkEditWindow::on_actionBold_triggered()
{
QTextCursor selectionBegin(ui->markdownEdit->document());
selectionBegin.setPosition(ui->markdownEdit->textCursor().anchor());
selectionBegin.insertText("**");

QTextCursor selectionEnd(ui->markdownEdit->document());
selectionEnd.setPosition(ui->markdownEdit->textCursor().position());
selectionEnd.insertText("**");

}
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now for example i wrote "test" then run the action the result is "test" and the selected text will be "test**" (missing first '**')
how can i move the cursor after selection to make it select "test" or even select "test" only
i tried a lot of things and didn't work, like:
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selectionEnd.movePosition(QTextCursor::Left);
selectionEnd.movePosition(QTextCursor::Left);
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but didn't work! :-(

SGaist

Hi,

Are you thinking of something like

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QTextCursor cursor = _textEdit->textCursor();
int start = cursor.selectionStart();
int end = cursor.selectionEnd();
cursor.setPosition(start);
cursor.insertText("");
cursor.setPosition(end+2);
cursor.insertText("");
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?

Abdeljalil

yeah, but:
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cursor.setPosition(end-2);
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how to do that?

SGaist

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// Go back to start and redo the selection
cursor.setPosition(start + 2);
cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextCharacter, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor, (end - start));
_textEdit->setTextCursor(cursor);
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