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    Hi,

    I want to paint HTML-formatted text with a QPainter. In Qt3, this was easily done with QSimpleRichText - but I am not sure what the equivalent method is in Qt4.

    I have tried using the QTextLayout class, but without success. This code, for example, does not appear to draw anything:

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    1. QTextLayout l( "test" );
    2. l.draw( qPainter, QPointF( 0, 0 ) );
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    I have tried passing a font to QTextLayout in its constructor, changing the pen used in QPainter, etc, but none of these changes has resulted in drawn text.

    Any ideas on where I'm going wrong?

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    Default Re: Painting Rich Text

    IMO you must help it a bit with the layout process:
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    1. QTextLayout l( "test" );
    2. l.beginLayout();
    3. QTextLine line = l.createLine();
    4. line.setLineWidth( 100 );
    5. line.setPosition( QPointF( 0, 14 ) );
    6. l.endLayout();
    7. l.draw( qPainter, QPointF( 100, 100 ) );
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    Default Re: Painting Rich Text

    Excellent - that works perfectly!

    Thanks Jacek

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    Default Re: Painting Rich Text

    Another issue - the painted text isn't formatted according to the HTML tags; instead, the text is printed as plain text (including the tags).

    I couldn't see any options in QTextLayout documentation for specifying the formatting of the text - only a reference to using it as part of a QTextDocument..

    So how do I make it format it as rich text (using HTML tags to achieve the formatting isn't important)?

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    Default Re: Painting Rich Text

    As the docs say:
    The QTextLayout class is used to lay out and paint a single paragraph of text.
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    The class has a rather low level API and unless you intend to implement your own text rendering for some specialized widget, you probably won't need to use it directly.
    Try QTextDocument::documentLayout() and QAbstractTextDocumentLayout::draw().

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    Default Re: Painting Rich Text

    Thanks for the tip, Jacek.

    However, I can't get anything to appear via QAbstractTextDocumentLayout::draw(). For example, here is some test code that doesn't work:

    Qt Code:
    1. QTextDocument td( "test" );
    2. QAbstractTextDocumentLayout::PaintContext ctx;
    3. ctx.clip = QRectF( 0, 0, 400, 100 );
    4. qPainter->drawRect( ctx.clip ); // Test that I'm drawing in the right area
    5. td.documentLayout()->draw( qPainter, ctx );
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    The clip rectangle gets drawn properly, but no text is drawn.

    I've tried looking at how QTextEdit draws its QTextDocument, and I can't see anything significantly different to what I am doing, but obviously there must be something..

    Any ideas?

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    Default Re: Painting Rich Text

    Add:
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    1. td.setPageSize( QSizeF( 400, 100 ) );
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    Probably you need also:
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    1. td.documentLayout()->setPaintDevice( this );
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  8. The following user says thank you to jacek for this useful post:

    xanthine (16th April 2006)

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    Default Re: Painting Rich Text

    It's all working perfectly now. Thanks for all your help!

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