Hi.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Henry Skoglund wrote: > Hi, just updated to Qt Creator 17 and it looks good, however when rebuilding > my Qt Creator plugin I got stuck for a bit with this failing: > > auto pe = > qobject_cast<QPlainTextEdit*>(EditorManager::currentEditor()->widget()); > > For almost 15 years that statement served me well and it allowed for example > setting a fatter cursor at Qt Creator start (useful on 4K screens) but > today, it returns a nullptr :-( > > > Instead, the new incantation for Qt Creator 17 (and onwards?) seems to be: > > auto pe = > qobject_cast<Utils::PlainTextEdit*>(EditorManager::currentEditor()->widget()); > > After that fix, it's smooth sailing (Utils::PlainTextEdit behaves 100% > compatible with QPlainTextEdit). > > But if there was a bit of documentation of this new class in the Utils:: > Namespace I would be even more happy! Sorry to hear that this bit you. I guess nobody expected that some plugin out there had a hard dependency on Editor::widget() being in fact a QPlainTextEdit for text editors. The fact that Utils::PlainTextEdit behaves like QPlainTextEdit is not quite an accident, the idea is add a few features and try to upstream it to Qt proper again. For this to happen it has to stay compatible. In case this upstreaming will be successful there's a good chance that Utils::PlainTextEdit will vanish again. But then there'll hopefully be a more communication. > Rgrds Henry Regards, Andre' -- Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator
