BTW, thank you Reinhard for getting me moving in the right direction. Knowledgeable as always :)
On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 11:11:54 AM UTC-4, john lunzer wrote: > > While this is definitely interesting and useful it's not the mouse > position that we're looking for but the text cursor position. > > However I think this put me on the right track. > > So c.frame.body.widget.cursorRect() will provide something > like: PyQt4.QtCore.QRect(52, 4, 3, 26) > > if that were assigned to variable qr1 you could get the x and y coords via > qr1.x() and qr1.y() > > I believe the method *c.frame.body.widget.mapToGlobal()* provides what > i'm looking for, the example usage would be: > > *c.frame.body.widget.mapToGlobal(QPoint(qr1.x(), qr1.y())* > > I haven't fully tested this out but the numbers I'm getting out look right. > > If anyone else has any comments let me know. I'll try to integrate this > into a new Leo command I've been working on and keep you updated. > > On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 9:48:04 AM UTC-4, reinhard...@googlemail.com > wrote: >> >> Since Leo works with PyQT/Qt, a look there might help, i.e. >> >> http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/3073-How-to-get-mouse-s-position >> >> or >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19825650/python-pyqt4-how-to-detect-the-mouse-click-position-anywhere-in-the-window >> >> Reinhard >> >> >> >> On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 3:20:03 PM UTC+2, john lunzer wrote: >>> >>> c.frame.body.widget.cursorRect() >>> >>> will give you the location of the cursor relative to the text body, I >>> think relative to the top left corner. I think that: >>> >>> c.frame.body.widget.getContentsMargins() also needs to be factored into >>> this, ie added to whatever you get from cursorRect() >>> >>> What I can't figure out is how to determine where the top left corner of >>> the text body starts on the screen. I've poured over the members and >>> methods for c.frame, c.frame.body, and c.frame.body.widget and I couldn't >>> find it. >>> >>> Hopefully somebody more knowledgeable can weigh in. >>> >>> On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 6:13:26 AM UTC-4, jkn wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi John >>>> >>>> On Friday, 29 May 2015 13:38:34 UTC+1, john lunzer wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've been playing around with trying to extract the x,y screen >>>>> coordinates of the text cursor in the body but I've come up short. I >>>>> found >>>>> QTextCursor but it's position method does not give screen coordinates >>>>> like >>>>> QCursor does with its pos method. >>>>> >>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I too would be interested in 'recipes' in this area... >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Jon N >>>> >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
