[Qt-interest] How to scroll QTextEdit to the end

[Nikos Chantziaras]

It's not a signal.  It's a member function.  You call it with the 
QAbstractSlider::SliderAction (enum) you want:

   hbar->triggerAction(QAbstractSlider::SliderToMaximum);

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qabstractslider.html#triggerAction
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qabstractslider.html#SliderAction-enum


On 06/22/2010 01:05 AM, yogesh upreti wrote:
> Hi Nikos,
> How do I use triggerAction signal from QAbstractSlider with a TextEdit?
>
> Regds
> Yogesh
>
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>     Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:14:41 +0200
>     From: Andre Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl
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>     Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] How to scroll QTextEdit to the end
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>     Op 21-6-2010 0:53, Nikos Chantziaras schreef:
>      > On 06/21/2010 01:21 AM, yogesh upreti wrote:
>      >
>      >> Hallo Group,
>      >> I have a QTextEdit Widget in my gui, which I use to display the
>     log of
>      >> work being performed by my programme.
>      >> How do I make it sure that in this text edit (which is read only),
>      >> whenever I insert a text, it should scroll to the bottom.
>      >> I use this code in textChanged() signal of MyTextEdit. But this
>     somehow
>      >> doesn't work.
>      >>
>      >> QScrollBar *hbar = ui->MyTextEdit->horizontalScrollBar();
>      >> hbar->setValue(hbar->maximum());
>      >>
>      >> Is this piece of code correct???
>      >>
>      > Try QAbstractSlider::triggerAction(QAbstractSlider::SliderToMaximum).
>      >
>     Perhaps you should only do this if the slider was not moved manually in
>     the meantime, and the cursor position is at the end (or something like
>     that). Otherwise, users won't be able to scroll comfortably and take a
>     little bit of time to read the log messages. It is *very* annoying if
>     you try to read a log, and it keeps scrolling away to the end because a
>     new message has been added...
>
>     Andr?
>
>
>