Adding new functionality to CodeEditor example

[Khamza]

I've seen example of creating line numbers using QPlainTextEdit from here. But now i also want to draw lines between strings. My idea was to override CodeEditor::paintEvent(). So the question is: can i call - QPlainTextEdit::paintEvent() from CodeEditor::paintEvent() to save QPlainTextEdit::paintEvent() functionality and then draw lines in it?
If not, what is the best way to achieve this?

[JonB]

@Khamza
Yes, assuming you mean CodeEditor inherits QPlainTextEdit. From your overridden paintEvent() call the base one and then you could add your own extra drawing, if that is what you want to do.

[Khamza]

@JonB Yeah, it is. But i read that i should not call paintEvent() directly. Isn't this the case?

[JonB]

@Khamza
You are not supposed to just call paintEvent() from somewhere else, it's designed to be called during actual painting. If you override a base paintEvent() you can (and should) indeed call the base implementation from there.