QFindDialogs

A custom working Qt-based dialog with Find, Replace and RegEX search functionalities based on the Extension Example. You are Free to use this project under the BSD-3 Clause License. Please refer the License Terms for your project compatibility. There are two available dialogs:

• Find Dialog
• Find and Replace Dialog

Public Functions (FindDialog)

Type	Function
explicit	FindDialog(QWidget *parent = nullptr)
void	setEditor(QPlainTextEdit *editor)
QPlainTextEdit*	getEditor()

Private Slots (FindDialog)

Type	Function
void	find()
void	regexMode()

Public Functions (FindReplaceDialog)

Type	Function
explicit	FindReplaceDialog(QWidget *parent = nullptr)
void	setEditor(QPlainTextEdit *editor)
QPlainTextEdit*	getEditor()

Private Slots (FindReplaceDialog)

Type	Function
void	find()
void	replace()
void	replaceAll()
void	regexMode()

FindDialog

Sample Images:

The more button expands the remaining available options with its individual functionality provided as seen here:

FindReplaceDialog

Sample Images:

The more button expands the same as it expanded before in FindDialog with the options.

Documentation

Public Functions

explicit FindDialog::FindDialog(QWidget *parent = nullptr)

Constructs a Find Dialog with the given parent.

FindDialog inherits from QDialog.

void FindDialog::setEditor(QPlainTextEdit *editor)

Sets the current active editor of the find dialog object to the specified one.

QPlainTextEdit* FindDialog::getEditor()

Returns the current active editor of the find dialog object.

void FindDialog::find()

Finds the query text from the find field in the editor, sets a selection to the found substring and sets the cursor at the end.

find() checks various checkboxes and does the exact search function.

void FindDialog::regexMode()

If regex-CheckBox is ticked, this method runs ensuring a Regular Expression mode for the find dialog to

search in the current editor. The find() then searches for a QRegularExpression in the Editor.

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explicit FindReplaceDialog::FindReplaceDialog(QWidget *parent = nullptr)

Constructs a Find and Replace Dialog with the given parent.

FindReplaceDialog inherits from QDialog and contains all the functions and properties from FindDialog.

void FindReplaceDialog::setEditor(QPlainTextEdit *editor)

Sets the current active editor of the find and replace dialog object to the specified one.

QPlainTextEdit* FindReplaceDialog::getEditor()

Returns the current active editor of the find and replace dialog object.

void FindReplaceDialog::find()

Finds the query text from the find field in the editor, sets a selection to the found substring and sets the cursor at the end.

find() checks various checkboxes and does the exact search function.

void FindReplaceDialog::replace()

Replaces the query selected by the find() and sets the cursor at the end of the replaced substring.

void FindReplaceDialog::replaceAll()

Replaces all occurences of the query selected by find() and the sets the cursor at the end of the last substring replaced.

void FindReplaceDialog::regexMode()

If regex-CheckBox is ticked, this method runs ensuring a Regular Expression mode for the find dialog to

search in the current editor. The find() then searches for a QRegularExpression in the Editor.

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Usage

FindDialog

QPlainTextEdit *myEditor = new QPlainTextEdit;
FindDialog *fdialog = new FindDialog(this);
fdialog->setEditor(myEditor);
fdialog->show();

FindReplaceDialog

QPlainTextEdit *myEditor = new QPlainTextEdit;
FindReplaceDialog *frDialog = new FindReplaceDialog(this);
frdialog->setEditor(myEditor);
frdialog->show();