On Saturday, July 30, 2011 02:05:41 PM Martin Airs wrote: > Good evening all, > > I'm trying to create a very simple chat window, with a QLineEdit at the > bottom and a box above for the text. > > however when enter is pressed in the QLineEdit, I would like the text to be > put into the box at the bottom just out of view, and then scrolled smoothly > upward into view, preferably with an easing curve. > > I thought about using a QGraphicsView and QGraphicsScene and having each > line of text as a QGraphicsSimpleTextItem or a QGraphicsTextItem whichever > supports word wrap, that way i could put the text on the scene just out > view. >
just curious, why aren't you using a QTextBrowser[2] for this? looking at the members list, it has some scroll methods[1] and an append method which adds the text, and ads all the things you need to implement a modern chat client readonly screen. Mike [1] scrollContentsBy ( int, int ) scrollToAnchor ( const QString & ) [2] http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qtextbrowser-members.html -- Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it. _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
