Hover over a word to select it then click it to print it

 Another good feature of an integrated development environment (IDE) is its ability to go to the definition of that function/variable/method/class when clicked or double clicked. It saves a lot of time especially when the project involves several thousands of lines of codes spread out over several files. To implement this function, a word must be able to be identified as the mouse hovers it and when selected, it should be clickable, In todays post, I have prepared a simple code snippet to do just that. What the program basically do is in the title itself, select a word by hovering the mouse pointer over it then click it to print it. To take this further, the program must be able to identify the word as a defined variable in the program or a class/method/function. I have already prepared a code snippet to identify if a word is a defined variable as stated on the planner in my chat application project, you may visit the logs here. The portion where I specifically mentioned this can be found at 'Plans for 03/08/2023'

Here is the code:

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from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QTextEdit from PyQt6.QtGui import QTextCursor class HoverTextEdit(QTextEdit): def __init__(self, parent=None): super().__init__(parent) self.setMouseTracking(True) self.mousePressEvent = self.onMouseClick def mouseMoveEvent(self, event): super().mouseMoveEvent(event) cursor = self.cursorForPosition(event.pos()) cursor.select(QTextCursor.SelectionType.WordUnderCursor) self.setTextCursor(cursor) def onMouseClick(self, event): super().mousePressEvent(event) cursor = self.textCursor() if cursor.hasSelection(): selected_word = cursor.selectedText() print(selected_word) if __name__ == '__main__': app = QApplication([]) widget = HoverTextEdit() widget.show() app.exec()