hi, i have successfully created a katepart and added it’s widget to a window.

now i want to know how to…

• set the text it contains to a string (like qtextedit::setplaintext)
• get the text back as a string
• get and set the cursor position
• insert text at the cursor position/left or right of the text selection
• set the syntax higlighting to “HTML”

here the code i used so far on the part. it’s in python, but c++ answers are welcome.

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sced = KLibLoader.self().factory("katepart").create(self, "KatePart")
sced.setReadWrite(True)
#now i add sced.widget() where i want it

KatePart implements the KTextEditor interfaces
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apid ... index.html

Cheers,
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thank you, but i don’t know how to access this functionality, since

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type(sced) == <class 'PyKDE4.kparts.ReadWritePart'> and
type(sced.widget()) == <class 'PyQt4.QtGui.QWidget'>

and nothing of these implements it.

there seems to be a problem with casting. python is dynamically typed, so how do i convince it that sced.widget() is indeed a katepart?

I don't think that the widget is a KatePart, at least it isn't in C++

In C++ one would cast sced to KatePart*
Since Python does duck typing, maybe you can just call KatePart of KTextInterface methods on sced?

Cheers,
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nope, but i was told yesterday evening that KTextEdit != KTextEditor. The latter is the Katepart i was searching for:

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self.sced = kate.createDocument(self).createView(self)
self.sced.setContextMenu(self.sced.defaultContextMenu())
self.sced.document().setText("Hello Katepart")

the only thing missing now is a clue how to add specific syntax highlighting (since the only language i want to highlight is (x)html, i don’t want the user to manually select a scheme)