PyQt5 QSpinBox – Selecting all the text

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In this article we will see how we can select all the text of the spin box, selecting text doesn’t mean printing or getting just selecting it. When we select text using mouse selected text get highlighted and with the help of right click of mouse button we can see option of copying and other option. Below is how selected text and when right click is pressed looks like.

In order to select the text we use selectAll method.

Syntax : spin_box.selectAll()

Argument : It takes no argument

Action performed : Select the text of the spin box

Note : It selects all the text in the spin box except the prefix and suffix.

Implementation steps :
1. Create a spin box
2. Add suffix and prefix (optional)
3. Set range of the spin box (to increase the values)
4. Create a label to show info about the push button
4. Create a push button and add action to it
5. Inside the action select the text of spin box

Below is the implementation

# importing libraries 
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * 
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui 
from PyQt5.QtGui import * 
from PyQt5.QtCore import * 
import sys 
  
class Window(QMainWindow): 
  
    def __init__(self): 
        super().__init__() 
  
        # setting title 
        self.setWindowTitle("Python ") 
  
        # setting geometry 
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 600, 400) 
  
        # calling method 
        self.UiComponents() 
  
        # showing all the widgets 
        self.show() 
  
    # method for widgets 
    def UiComponents(self): 
  
        # creating spin box 
        self.spin = QSpinBox(self) 
  
        # setting geometry to spin box 
        self.spin.setGeometry(100, 100, 250, 40) 
  
        # setting prefix to spin 
        self.spin.setPrefix("Prefix ") 
  
        # setting suffix to spin 
        self.spin.setSuffix(" Suffix") 
  
        # setting range to spin 
        self.spin.setRange(0, 99999) 
  
        # creating label 
        self.label = QLabel(self) 
  
        # setting geometry 
        self.label.setGeometry(100, 200, 300, 40) 
  
        # setting text to the label 
        self.label.setText("When push button get pressed value get selected") 
  
        # creating push button 
        button = QPushButton("Press", self) 
  
        # adding action to the push button 
        button.clicked.connect(self.push_method) 
  
    # method called by push button 
    def push_method(self): 
  
        # selecting all the text in spin box 
        self.spin.selectAll() 
  
# create pyqt5 app 
App = QApplication(sys.argv) 
  
# create the instance of our Window 
window = Window() 
  
# start the app 
sys.exit(App.exec()) 