QTextCursor::setPosition() not working in my QTextEdit.

dokif

Hi, I cannot manage to move textCursor of QTextEdit with setPosition function.
The following instruction does not work in my Qt 5.10.0:

this->textCursor().setPosition(0);

Nothing happens. I want to move cursor to specific position in the text already written, thats why i'm not using movePosition function.

Thanks.

Christian Ehrlicher

You need to set the cursor with setTextCursor(). textCursor only returns the current QTextCursor. See documentation: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextedit.html#textCursor

"Returns a copy of the QTextCursor that represents the currently visible cursor. Note that changes on the returned cursor do not affect QTextEdit's cursor; use setTextCursor() to update the visible cursor."

Jimmy Crab

Thanks Christian.
So the code is like this:

 tbx->setFocus();
 QTextCursor cursor = tbx->textCursor();
 cursor.setPosition(5);
 tbx->setTextCursor(cursor);