Getting plain text from Plasma::TextEdit

[HB]

Thank you Richard.
I wonder whether there is a possibility to get plain text from
Plasma::TextEdit?
As I see Plasma::TextEdit and Plasma::LineEdit are only 'text input'
widgets.
LineEdit isn't multiline, so is not suitable.

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Mateusz Szubart

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:46 PM, HB<mszubart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Is there any way to get plain text from Plasma::TextEdit?
>> >
>> > Plasma::TextEdit is child of KTextEdit, which is child of QTextEdit (right?)
>> >
>> > So, Plasma::TextEdit should have method toPlainText()
>> >
>> > I'm writing in Ruby, but in comments I have placed C++ code (but not
>> > checked it)
>> >
>> > This is my code:
>> >
>> >
>> > box = Plasma::TextEdit.new(self) ?# C++: Plasma::TextEdit box* = new
>> > Plasma::TextEdit::TextEdit(parent);
>> >
>> > # ... other operations
>> >
>> > # C++: QString tekst = box->toPlainText ();
>> >
>> > tekst = box.toPlainText # not working 'method_missing'
>> >
>> > # other try:
>> >
>> > tekst = box.to_plain_text # not working 'method_missing'
>> >
>> > # ... many other tries
>> >
>> >
>> > Please tell me. Did Plasma::TextEdit have method for getting plain text?
>> > (I would be pleased to get link to the documentation)
>>     
> The easiest way to find out what is in the Ruby api is by using the
> 'rbqtapi' command line tool. For instance:
>
> $ rbqtapi -rplasma_applet -s -p -mtext Plasma::TextEdit
> String Plasma::TextEdit#text
> Plasma::TextEdit#textChanged
> Qt::GraphicsProxyWidget#contextMenuEvent(Qt::GraphicsSceneContextMenuEvent)
> Qt::GraphicsItem#contextMenuEvent(Qt::GraphicsSceneContextMenuEvent)
>
> Oops it has matched 'Context' as well, but I hope you get the idea.
>
> The '-s' option means show the results in a 'ruby-like' format, the
> '-p' option means look in the parent classes and the '-m' option takes
> a regular expression to match.
>
> To find out if there are any methods with 'plain' in their names you
> could try ('-i' means a case insensitive match)::
>
> $ rbqtapi -rplasma_applet -p -i -mplain Plasma::TextEdit
>
> And it doesn't return anything..
>
> -- Richrad
>
>