[Qt-interest] Qt4.4 QTextEdit size and viewport() size

Josh jnfo-c at grauman.com
Fri Feb 6 23:34:16 CET 2009


Hello,

This should be simple but I can't figure it out. I have a QTextEdit with 
lots of text so that scrollbars appear. I'm trying to get the size of the 
widget that contains the text (for lack of a better description). I 
thought the viewport() function did this, but it only returns the size of 
the visible portion of the QTextEdit. The size of the QTextEdit itself 
likewise is only the size of the visible widget.

So for example if you have a QTextEdit with many pages of text, the height 
of the widget I'm looking for should certainly be more than the number of 
pixels of the height of the screen, but both the QTextEdit's height() 
function and the viewport() height() function both return the number of 
pixels on the screen.

Thoughts? Ultimately it would be nice not just to get the size of the 
underlying widget, but also a pointer to it itself. Thanks.

Josh



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