> On 26 Aug 2020, at 09:07, Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilai...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 09:39, Lars Knoll <lars.kn...@qt.io> wrote:
>>> QtGui:
>>> * QTextCursor
>>> * QTextDocument (find offset, character{At,Count})
>>> * QTextLayout
>>> * QValidator and subclasses (validate offset)
>>
>> These here are questionable. Editing a text file with more than 2G
>> characters? Sounds unlikely.
>
> Thou Shalt Not Write Debug Log Viewers Or Hex Editors With Qt. :)
Porting that API might not be too much of a problem, I don’t think we have
virtual methods in there taking offsets.
But QTextDocument is probably not the right data structure for a hex editor or
a log viewer anyway (why would you store a hex in clear text instead of
decoding on the fly???).
Cheers,
Lars
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