Is there a way to find out where the caret index is in TextEdit or LineEdit?

[maxenko]

Is there any way to set it?

[syf20020816]

It seems we just can find what change in textedit or lineedit

maybe you need this callback in TextInput(define textedit yourself):

cursor-position-changed(Point): The cursor was moved to the new (x, y) position described by the Point argument.

[maxenko]

It could if it had caret index. This is a very simple request. Nothing fancy needed like a specialized editor, just an index within text where the caret is.

[syf20020816]

Yes, but this requires a more powerful editing method. When we need to bold certain text, users wrap it by adding * *, but in reality, the output result seen by the end user is already bold text, which reminds me of the real-time rendering of typroa. Of course, we can provide a basic editor for users to input, but currently real-time rendering seems impossible because widgets and HTML are different. Therefore, if you want to implement similar functions, you need an editing area and an edited result rendering area, which are two different widgets

[maxenko]

I don't need to show bold output. I just need to wrap the word with **

[syf20020816]

If that's all, what you really need most is lexical analysis

[maxenko]

what i really need is caret index, i'll take it from there.
I already do this in WPF, its mundane.

[syf20020816]

you may find some help in api doc https://releases.slint.dev/1.5.1/docs/rust/slint/struct.sharedstring 获取Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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[maxenko]

Ok found it. This is not documented unless you dig through the source (or pay more attention to intellisense, as I should have).

TextInput has:
self.cursor-position-byte-offset
self.anchor-position-byte-offset

TextInput {
    text: "Hello World";
    
    cursor-position-changed(p) => {
        debug(self.cursor-position-byte-offset);
    }
}