[Qt-interest] Change default background color for search results (QPlainTextEdit)

[Jaco Naude]

Oops, forgot to mention you need to set the text cursor again at the end:

setTextCursor(cursor);

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jaco Naude <naude.jaco at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe something like this:
>
> QTextCursor find_cursor = document()->find(search_string,textCursor());
> QTextCharFormat format(find_cursor.charFormat());
> format.setBackground(QBrush(Qt::green);
> find_cursor.mergeCharFormat(format);
>
> I've used something like this to highlight specific words in a class which
> inherits QPlainTextEdit.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Cheers
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:13 AM, NoRulez <norulez at me.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> if I use „QPlainTextEdit::find(searchText, searchFlags)” then the search
>> results have a gray background.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to tell QPlainTextEdit, to use an alternative color,
>> such as green, orange, yellow, ...
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> NoRulez
>>
>>
>>
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