Autoscroll QTextBrowser

[aLiNuSh]

Hi,

I'm making this chat window and I implemented the chat board with a QTextBrowser. I'm new to Qt so if there's a better way to do it please say so.

What I want to do, is to make the textBrowser scroll down when there's no space left for new messages. Right now if I send like 50 messages to the board, the scrollbar appears but it doesn't scroll down and I can't see the rest of the messages unless I scroll manually which is not user friendly.

So is there anyway to make the QTextBrowser scroll down automatically each time text is inserted? Or maybe I should use another widget that can do that?

Many thanks

[wysota]

Please search the forum. A simmilar issue was brought up not more than two weeks ago.

[aLiNuSh]

I did and found nothing, I'll keep searching then

[wysota]

http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/f-qt-p...roll-5983.html

[aLiNuSh]

Thanks for the link
I've solved it now

Here's how...

void MainChatDlg::on_send_pushButton_clicked ()
{
	if (!message_lineEdit->text().isEmpty ())
	{
		conversation_textBrowser->insertPlainText('\n' + message_lineEdit->text ());   
		QScrollBar *sb = conversation_textBrowser->verticalScrollBar();
		sb->setValue(sb->maximum());
		message_lineEdit->clear ();
	}
}

void MainChatDlg::on_send_pushButton_clicked ()
{
	if (!message_lineEdit->text().isEmpty ())
	{
		conversation_textBrowser->insertPlainText('\n' + message_lineEdit->text ());   
		QScrollBar *sb = conversation_textBrowser->verticalScrollBar();
		sb->setValue(sb->maximum());
		message_lineEdit->clear ();
	}
}

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