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

[Josh]

Thanks for the pointer. It looked promising, but unfortunately, 
MyTextEdit->document().size() doesn't return the actual size of the 
'underlying widget'.

Josh

> Josh wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> Try MyTextEdit->document().size()
>
>> From your description, I think the 'underlying widget' is virtual in the
> case QTextEdit.
>
> Tony.
>
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