How to end line with QTextEdit

Question

I'm trying to create QTextEdit with some text, and in this text I have end of line characters (\n), but it is not accepted in QTextEdit object (whole text is displayed without any breaks). Any reason why?

Android

Answer 1

If you're using Qt 4.3 or later, then you can use setPlainText(const QString &text)

You can turn off rich text editing with setAcceptRichText(bool accept) (Qt 4.1 or later)

Ribbonwood

Answer 2

Per the docs, if you setTextFormat(PlainText) you should get what you want -- quoting with added emphasis:

QTextEdit works on paragraphs and characters. A paragraph is a formatted string which is word-wrapped to fit into the width of the widget. By default when reading plain text, one newline signify a paragraph. A document consists of zero or more paragraphs, indexed from 0. Characters are indexed on a per-paragraph basis, also indexed from 0. The words in the paragraph are aligned in accordance with the paragraph's alignment(). Paragraphs are separated by hard line breaks. Each character within a paragraph has its own attributes, for example, font and color.

Morganatic

Funny enough, I seem not to have this function in my QTextEdit class. Any ideas why? – Android

@atch, what version of Qt are you using? Older versions didn't have that exact function (though there might be others you could use, depending on what version you're stuck with -- we, of course, have no way of guessing which Qt version you may be using!). – Morganatic

It could be a QT4 -> QT5 change. – Unorganized

Answer 3

For PyQt5, new line was not showing rather entire text was shown as a string.

Firstly, set the object to accept rich text.

self.massorder.setAcceptRichText(True)

Secondly,

_data = self.massorder.toPlainText().split("\n")

Dovap