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The QLineEdit widget is a one-line text editor. More...
#include <QLineEdit>
Inherits QWidget.
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The QLineEdit widget is a one-line text editor.
A line edit allows the user to enter and edit a single line of plain text with a useful collection of editing functions, including undo and redo, cut and paste, and drag and drop.
By changing the echoMode() of a line edit, it can also be used as a "write-only" field, for inputs such as passwords.
The length of the text can be constrained to maxLength(). The text can be arbitrarily constrained using a validator() or an inputMask(), or both.
A related class is QTextEdit which allows multi-line, rich text editing.
You can change the text with setText() or insert(). The text is retrieved with text(); the displayed text (which may be different, see EchoMode) is retrieved with displayText(). Text can be selected with setSelection() or selectAll(), and the selection can be cut(), copy()ied and paste()d. The text can be aligned with setAlignment().
When the text changes the textChanged() signal is emitted; when the text changes other than by calling setText() the textEdited() signal is emitted; when the cursor is moved the cursorPositionChanged() signal is emitted; and when the Return or Enter key is pressed the returnPressed() signal is emitted.
When editing is finished, either because the line edit lost focus or Return/Enter is pressed the editingFinished() signal is emitted.
Note that if there is a validator set on the line edit, the returnPressed()/editingFinished() signals will only be emitted if the validator returns QValidator::Acceptable.
By default, QLineEdits have a frame as specified by the Windows and Motif style guides; you can turn it off by calling setFrame(false).
The default key bindings are described below. The line edit also provides a context menu (usually invoked by a right mouse click) that presents some of these editing options.
| Keypress | Action |
|---|---|
| Left Arrow | Moves the cursor one character to the left. |
| Shift+Left Arrow | Moves and selects text one character to the left. |
| Right Arrow | Moves the cursor one character to the right. |
| Shift+Right Arrow | Moves and selects text one character to the right. |
| Home | Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. |
| End | Moves the cursor to the end of the line. |
| Backspace | Deletes the character to the left of the cursor. |
| Ctrl+Backspace | Deletes the word to the left of the cursor. |
| Delete | Deletes the character to the right of the cursor. |
| Ctrl+Delete | Deletes the word to the right of the cursor. |
| Ctrl+A | Select all. |
| Ctrl+C | Copies the selected text to the clipboard. |
| Ctrl+Insert | Copies the selected text to the clipboard. |
| Ctrl+K | Deletes to the end of the line. |
| Ctrl+V | Pastes the clipboard text into line edit. |
| Shift+Insert | Pastes the clipboard text into line edit. |
| Ctrl+X | Deletes the selected text and copies it to the clipboard. |
| Shift+Delete | Deletes the selected text and copies it to the clipboard. |
| Ctrl+Z | Undoes the last operation. |
| Ctrl+Y | Redoes the last undone operation. |
Any other key sequence that represents a valid character, will cause the character to be inserted into the line edit.
 | A line edit shown in the Macintosh widget style. |
 | A line edit shown in the Windows XP widget style. |
 | A line edit shown in the Plastique widget style. |
See also QTextEdit, QLabel, QComboBox, GUI Design Handbook: Field, Entry, and Line Edits Example.
This enum type describes how a line edit should display its contents.
| Constant | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| QLineEdit::Normal | 0 | Display characters as they are entered. This is the default. |
| QLineEdit::NoEcho | 1 | Do not display anything. This may be appropriate for passwords where even the length of the password should be kept secret. |
| QLineEdit::Password | 2 | Display asterisks instead of the characters actually entered. |
| QLineEdit::PasswordEchoOnEdit | 3 | Display characters as they are entered while editing otherwise display asterisks. |
See also setEchoMode() and echoMode().
This property holds whether the input satisfies the inputMask and the validator.
By default, this property is true.
Access functions:
See also setInputMask() and setValidator().
This property holds the alignment of the line edit.
Both horizontal and vertical alignment is allowed here, Qt::AlignJustify will map to Qt::AlignLeft.
By default, this property contains a combination of Qt::AlignLeft and Qt::AlignVCenter.
Access functions:
See also Qt::Alignment.
This property holds the current cursor position for this line edit.
Setting the cursor position causes a repaint when appropriate.
By default, this property contains a value of 0.
Access functions:
This property holds the displayed text.
If echoMode is Normal this returns the same as text(); if EchoMode is Password or PasswordEchoOnEdit it returns a string of asterisks text().length() characters long, e.g. "******"; if EchoMode is NoEcho returns an empty string, "".
By default, this property contains an empty string.
Access functions:
See also setEchoMode(), text(), and EchoMode.
This property holds whether the lineedit starts a drag if the user presses and moves the mouse on some selected text.
Dragging is disabled by default.
Access functions:
This property holds the line edit's echo mode.
The echo mode determines how the text entered in the line edit is displayed (or echoed) to the user.
The most common setting is Normal, in which the text entered by the user is displayed verbatim, but QLineEdit also supports modes that allow the entered text to be suppressed or obscured: these include NoEcho, Password and PasswordEchoOnEdit.
The widget's display and the ability to copy or drag the text is affected by this setting.
By default, this property is set to Normal.
Access functions:
See also EchoMode and displayText().
This property holds whether the line edit draws itself with a frame.
If enabled (the default) the line edit draws itself inside a frame, otherwise the line edit draws itself without any frame.
Access functions:
This property holds whether there is any text selected.
hasSelectedText() returns true if some or all of the text has been selected by the user; otherwise returns false.
By default, this property is false.
Access functions:
See also selectedText().
This property holds the validation input mask.
If no mask is set, inputMask() returns an empty string.
Sets the QLineEdit's validation mask. Validators can be used instead of, or in conjunction with masks; see setValidator().
Unset the mask and return to normal QLineEdit operation by passing an empty string ("") or just calling setInputMask() with no arguments.
The table below shows the characters that can be used in an input mask. A space character, the default character for a blank, is needed for cases where a character is permitted but not required.
| Character | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A | ASCII alphabetic character required. A-Z, a-z. |
| a | ASCII alphabetic character permitted but not required. |
| N | ASCII alphanumeric character required. A-Z, a-z, 0-9. |
| n | ASCII alphanumeric character permitted but not required. |
| X | Any character required. |
| x | Any character permitted but not required. |
| 9 | ASCII digit required. 0-9. |
| 0 | ASCII digit permitted but not required. |
| D | ASCII digit required. 1-9. |
| d | ASCII digit permitted but not required (1-9). |
| # | ASCII digit or plus/minus sign permitted but not required. |
| H | Hexadecimal character required. A-F, a-f, 0-9. |
| h | Hexadecimal character permitted but not required. |
| B | Binary character required. 0-1. |
| b | Binary character permitted but not required. |
| > | All following alphabetic characters are uppercased. |
| < | All following alphabetic characters are lowercased. |
| ! | Switch off case conversion. |
| \ | Use \ to escape the special characters listed above to use them as separators. |
The mask consists of a string of mask characters and separators, optionally followed by a semicolon and the character used for blanks. The blank characters are always removed from the text after editing.
Examples:
| Mask | Notes |
|---|---|
| 000.000.000.000;_ | IP address; blanks are _. |
| HH:HH:HH:HH:HH:HH;_ | MAC address |
| 0000-00-00 | ISO Date; blanks are space |
| >AAAAA-AAAAA-AAAAA-AAAAA-AAAAA;# | License number; blanks are - and all (alphabetic) characters are converted to uppercase. |
To get range control (e.g., for an IP address) use masks together with validators.
Access functions:
See also maxLength.
This property holds the maximum permitted length of the text.
If the text is too long, it is truncated at the limit.
If truncation occurs any selected text will be unselected, the cursor position is set to 0 and the first part of the string is shown.
If the line edit has an input mask, the mask defines the maximum string length.
By default, this property contains a value of 32767.
Access functions:
See also inputMask.
This property holds whether the line edit's contents has been modified by the user.
The modified flag is never read by QLineEdit; it has a default value of false and is changed to true whenever the user changes the line edit's contents.
This is useful for things that need to provide a default value but do not start out knowing what the default should be (perhaps it depends on other fields on the form). Start the line edit without the best default, and when the default is known, if modified() returns false (the user hasn't entered any text), insert the default value.
Calling setText() resets the modified flag to false.
Access functions:
This property holds whether the line edit is read only.
In read-only mode, the user can still copy the text to the clipboard, or drag and drop the text (if echoMode() is Normal), but cannot edit it.
QLineEdit does not show a cursor in read-only mode.
By default, this property is false.
Access functions:
See also setEnabled().
This property holds whether redo is available.
Redo becomes available once the user has performed one or more undo operations on text in the line edit.
By default, this property is false.
Access functions:
This property holds the selected text.
If there is no selected text this property's value is an empty string.
By default, this property contains an empty string.
Access functions:
See also hasSelectedText().
This property holds the line edit's text.
Setting this property clears the selection, clears the undo/redo history, moves the cursor to the end of the line and resets the modified property to false. The text is not validated when inserted with setText().
The text is truncated to maxLength() length.
By default, this property contains an empty string.
Access functions:
See also insert() and clear().
This property holds whether undo is available.
Undo becomes available once the user has modified the text in the line edit.
By default, this property is false.
Access functions:
Constructs a line edit with no text.
The maximum text length is set to 32767 characters.
The parent argument is sent to the QWidget constructor.
See also setText() and setMaxLength().
Constructs a line edit containing the text contents.
The cursor position is set to the end of the line and the maximum text length to 32767 characters.
The parent and argument is sent to the QWidget constructor.
See also text() and setMaxLength().
Destroys the line edit.
If no text is selected, deletes the character to the left of the text cursor and moves the cursor one position to the left. If any text is selected, the cursor is moved to the beginning of the selected text and the selected text is deleted.
See also del().
Clears the contents of the line edit.
See also setText() and insert().
Returns the current QCompleter that provides completions.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.2.
See also setCompleter().
Shows the standard context menu created with createStandardContextMenu().
If you do not want the line edit to have a context menu, you can set its contextMenuPolicy to Qt::NoContextMenu. If you want to customize the context menu, reimplement this function. If you want to extend the standard context menu, reimplement this function, call createStandardContextMenu() and extend the menu returned.
void LineEdit::contextMenuEvent(QContextMenuEvent *event)
{
QMenu *menu = createStandardContextMenu();
menu->addAction(tr("My Menu Item"));
//...
menu->exec(event->globalPos());
delete menu;
}
The event parameter is used to obtain the position where the mouse cursor was when the event was generated.
Reimplemented from QWidget.
See also setContextMenuPolicy().
Copies the selected text to the clipboard, if there is any, and if echoMode() is Normal.
This function creates the standard context menu which is shown when the user clicks on the line edit with the right mouse button. It is called from the default contextMenuEvent() handler. The popup menu's ownership is transferred to the caller.
Moves the cursor back steps characters. If mark is true each character moved over is added to the selection; if mark is false the selection is cleared.
See also cursorForward().
Moves the cursor forward steps characters. If mark is true each character moved over is added to the selection; if mark is false the selection is cleared.
See also cursorBackward().
Returns the cursor position under the point pos.
This signal is emitted whenever the cursor moves. The previous position is given by old, and the new position by new.
See also setCursorPosition() and cursorPosition().
Returns a rectangle that includes the lineedit cursor.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.4.
Moves the cursor one word backward. If mark is true, the word is also selected.
See also cursorWordForward().
Moves the cursor one word forward. If mark is true, the word is also selected.
See also cursorWordBackward().
Copies the selected text to the clipboard and deletes it, if there is any, and if echoMode() is Normal.
If the current validator disallows deleting the selected text, cut() will copy without deleting.
See also copy(), paste(), and setValidator().
If no text is selected, deletes the character to the right of the text cursor. If any text is selected, the cursor is moved to the beginning of the selected text and the selected text is deleted.
See also backspace().
Deselects any selected text.
See also setSelection() and selectAll().
This signal is emitted when the Return or Enter key is pressed or the line edit loses focus. Note that if there is a validator() or inputMask() set on the line edit and enter/return is pressed, the editingFinished() signal will only be emitted if the input follows the inputMask() and the validator() returns QValidator::Acceptable.
Moves the text cursor to the end of the line unless it is already there. If mark is true, text is selected towards the last position; otherwise, any selected text is unselected if the cursor is moved.
See also home().
Moves the text cursor to the beginning of the line unless it is already there. If mark is true, text is selected towards the first position; otherwise, any selected text is unselected if the cursor is moved.
See also end().
Initialize option with the values from this QLineEdit. This method is useful for subclasses when they need a QStyleOptionFrame or QStyleOptionFrameV2, but don't want to fill in all the information themselves. This function will check the version of the QStyleOptionFrame and fill in the additional values for a QStyleOptionFrameV2.
See also QStyleOption::initFrom().
Deletes any selected text, inserts newText, and validates the result. If it is valid, it sets it as the new contents of the line edit.
See also setText() and clear().
Converts the given key press event into a line edit action.
If Return or Enter is pressed and the current text is valid (or can be made valid by the validator), the signal returnPressed() is emitted.
The default key bindings are listed in the class's detailed description.
Reimplemented from QWidget.
Returns a minimum size for the line edit.
The width returned is enough for at least one character.
Reimplemented from QWidget.
Inserts the clipboard's text at the cursor position, deleting any selected text, providing the line edit is not read-only.
If the end result would not be acceptable to the current validator, nothing happens.
Redoes the last operation if redo is available.
This signal is emitted when the Return or Enter key is pressed. Note that if there is a validator() or inputMask() set on the line edit, the returnPressed() signal will only be emitted if the input follows the inputMask() and the validator() returns QValidator::Acceptable.
Selects all the text (i.e. highlights it) and moves the cursor to the end. This is useful when a default value has been inserted because if the user types before clicking on the widget, the selected text will be deleted.
See also setSelection() and deselect().
This signal is emitted whenever the selection changes.
See also hasSelectedText() and selectedText().
selectionStart() returns the index of the first selected character in the line edit or -1 if no text is selected.
See also selectedText().
Sets this line edit to provide auto completions from the completer, c. The completion mode is set using QCompleter::setCompletionMode().
To use a QCompleter with a QValidator or QLineEdit::inputMask, you need to ensure that the model provided to QCompleter contains valid entries. You can use the QSortFilterProxyModel to ensure that the QCompleter's model contains only valid entries.
If c == 0, setCompleter() removes the current completer, effectively disabling auto completion.
This function was introduced in Qt 4.2.
See also completer() and QCompleter.
Selects text from position start and for length characters. Negative lengths are allowed.
See also deselect(), selectAll(), and selectedText().
Sets this line edit to only accept input that the validator, v, will accept. This allows you to place any arbitrary constraints on the text which may be entered.
If v == 0, setValidator() removes the current input validator. The initial setting is to have no input validator (i.e. any input is accepted up to maxLength()).
See also validator(), QIntValidator, QDoubleValidator, and QRegExpValidator.
Returns a recommended size for the widget.
The width returned, in pixels, is usually enough for about 15 to 20 characters.
Reimplemented from QWidget.
This signal is emitted whenever the text changes. The text argument is the new text.
Unlike textEdited(), this signal is also emitted when the text is changed programmatically, for example, by calling setText().
This signal is emitted whenever the text is edited. The text argument is the next text.
Unlike textChanged(), this signal is not emitted when the text is changed programmatically, for example, by calling setText().
Undoes the last operation if undo is available. Deselects any current selection, and updates the selection start to the current cursor position.
Returns a pointer to the current input validator, or 0 if no validator has been set.
See also setValidator().
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