How to scroll QPlainTextEdit to top?

Question

I would like to automatically scroll to the top in a QPlainTextEdit widget after put in some text. How can I realize that?

Bushcraft

Answer 1

myTextEdit -> moveCursor (QTextCursor::Start) ;
myTextEdit -> ensureCursorVisible() ;

Koeppel

Answer 2

As QTextEdit inherits from QAbstractScrollArea, you can move its scrollbars:

QScrollBar *vScrollBar = yourTextEdit->verticalScrollBar();
vScrollBar->triggerAction(QScrollBar::SliderToMinimum);

Eastlake

This is the most general solution to the issue of scrolling. (It answered my general question about scrolling to the top of widgets.) – Durham