problem in setting cursor position in readOnly QTextEdit()

hi friends ,
how can i set the cursor position of a readonly QTextEdit() after it get input to the top position ...
like this if the user click a button i am displaying a big paragraph but it showing only the tail position but i want to show the front text first ... i try

Code:

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QTextCursor cursor(editor->textCursor());
    cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::Start);

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but its not working ... i try setCursorPosition(1,1) but it says its not a member function ...
then i tried

Code:

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resultTextEdit->cursorForPosition(startPos);

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but i dont know how to set it ... please help ...
please help

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Originally Posted by wagmare

how can i set the cursor position of a readonly QTextEdit() after it get input to the top position ...
like this if the user click a button i am displaying a big paragraph but it showing only the tail position but i want to show the front text first ... i try

Code:

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QTextCursor cursor(editor->textCursor());
    cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::Start);

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According to the documentation, QTextEdit::textCursor() returns a copy of the cursor, and changes to that do not affect the QTextEdit. Try to add a QTextEdit::setTextCursor() after the above code to tell the QTextEdit to use the modified cursor.

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Originally Posted by rexi

According to the documentation, QTextEdit::textCursor() returns a copy of the cursor, and changes to that do not affect the QTextEdit. Try to add a QTextEdit::setTextCursor() after the above code to tell the QTextEdit to use the modified cursor.

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yes it worked , thanks a lot ....

this below code will work for setting the cursor position in read only mode....

QTextCursor cursor(textEdit->textCursor());
cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::Start);
textEdit->setTextCursor(cursor);