selecting that single character..

[jajdoo]

so i want to highlight matching parenthesis/braces.

i got a it working, but i cant seem to make it select a single character. i managed to highlight the entire line however, so I'm on the right track.

whenever textCursor position changes, i check if the character is for instance a closing brace. i use a method i wrote to find the 'twin' and add them to the extra selection.

problem is i just cant find a different way to have this work (the selection) other than 'QTextFormat::FullWidthSelection'. i want to highlight the specific character, but doing so in the highlighter would be too unnecessarily complicated..

QList<QTextEdit::ExtraSelection> extraSelections;
 
    QTextEdit::ExtraSelection selection;
 
    if( document()->characterAt(textCursor().position()-1) =='}')
    {
        selection.format.setBackground(QColor(Qt::green));
        selection.cursor = textCursor();
        selection.cursor.setPosition(findTwinBehind());
        selection.format.setProperty(QTextFormat::FullWidthSelection, true);
        selection.cursor.clearSelection();
        extraSelections.append(selection);
    }

QList<QTextEdit::ExtraSelection> extraSelections;

    QTextEdit::ExtraSelection selection;

    if( document()->characterAt(textCursor().position()-1) =='}')
    {
        selection.format.setBackground(QColor(Qt::green));
        selection.cursor = textCursor();
        selection.cursor.setPosition(findTwinBehind());
        selection.format.setProperty(QTextFormat::FullWidthSelection, true);
        selection.cursor.clearSelection();
        extraSelections.append(selection);
    }

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[jajdoo]

this worked:

selection.cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextCharacter, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor, 1);

selection.cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::NextCharacter, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor, 1);

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however, weirdness occurs:
if i set a background color, all is well. if a i set a foreground color it colors the original character i set out from.. why ?