QTimeedit Set Default text

SurendarK

Greetings to all,

I have a few queries about QTimeedit class.

I want to set Default text "HH:MM" in QTimeedit field. Is it possible to do?
Is it possible to clear the minutes or hours field? Or
Is it possible to clear the particular field to be empty whenever i press the mouse button in the QTimeedit?

jsulm

@SurendarK

Please take a look at http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdatetimeedit.html#displayFormat-prop
What do you mean by "empty"? 00? You can set for example 00:00

J.Hilk

@SurendarK

look at that, theres a QTimeEdit class, seems like I reinveted the wheel a couple of times in the past...

Anyway,

you can look into InputMethodHints to set the Inputmask to HH:MM
Doesn't seem like QTimeEdit has a Placeholdertext-option so you'll have to set the Text to your default by hand, right after the construction.

There 're a couple of ways to intercept and Keyboard/Mousevents. I suggest lookin into Event Filters and Event Handlers.
'Catch' the mouse press/click event, check if a QtimeEdit ist focused if it is -> clear it.

SurendarK

@jsulm
Thanks for your comments.
The word i meant by empty is the field is blank that is ( : ) not to set 00:00.Is it possible???

mrjj

@SurendarK
Hi, no, its not possible to have empty date like that.
The docs says
"If you specify an invalid format the format will not be set."
So it must be valid. :)

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