<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Henning Schröder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:post@henning-schroeder.de">post@henning-schroeder.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> The problem is that QSyntaxHighlighter.highlightBlock is passed only the string to be colored, *not* the offset of that string in the entire text.<br>
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</div>Since Qt 4.4 there is QSyntaxHighligher.currentBlock()<br>
You should be able to use QTextBlock.postion() then to get the offset</blockquote><div><br>Many, *many* thanks for this reply. This eliminates the need for an impossible-to-get-right method that I have been working on for days. Now everything "just works".<br>
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