How to use QMimeData::setHtml?

**Vadi** · 25th January 2011, 00:11

Trying to set my html text as an html mimetype into the clipboard. Text like this works:

Qt Code:

Switch view

QMimeData *md = new QMimeData;
    md->setText(*text);
    QApplication::clipboard()->setMimeData(md, QClipboard::Clipboard);

QMimeData *md = new QMimeData;
    md->setText(*text);
    QApplication::clipboard()->setMimeData(md, QClipboard::Clipboard);

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode

html like this:

Qt Code:

Switch view

QMimeData *md = new QMimeData;
    md->setHtml(*text);
    QApplication::clipboard()->setMimeData(md, QClipboard::Clipboard);

QMimeData *md = new QMimeData;
    md->setHtml(*text);
    QApplication::clipboard()->setMimeData(md, QClipboard::Clipboard);

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode

or this:

Qt Code:

Switch view

QMimeData *md = new QMimeData;
    md->setData(QLatin1String("text/html"), text->toUtf8());
    QApplication::clipboard()->setMimeData(md, QClipboard::Clipboard);

QMimeData *md = new QMimeData;
    md->setData(QLatin1String("text/html"), text->toUtf8());
    QApplication::clipboard()->setMimeData(md, QClipboard::Clipboard);

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode

does not work. Any ideas?

**wysota** · 25th January 2011, 00:43

What does "does not work" mean in this situation? What is the content of "text"? By the way, there is no point in using pointers to QString.

**Vadi** · 25th January 2011, 01:08

What doesn't work is that the global clipboard does not receive any new text - pasting into a field doesn't do anything either.

Sample content of text is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'><html><head><style></style><meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8'></head><body> ****************************************** Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands "Your fate and fame shall be an echo and a light unto eternity." ****************************************** Achaea's IP address is 69.65.42.66 For general questions e-mail support@achaea.com. 212 adventurers are currently in the </body></html>

Thanks for the quick answer

**wysota** · 25th January 2011, 01:56

Would you try something simpler? Like:

Qt Code:

Switch view

int main(int argc, char **argv){
  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  QClipboard *clip = QApplication::clipboard();
  QMimeData *data = new QMimeData;
  data->setHtml("<font color='red'>TEST</font>");
  clip->setMimeData(data);
  return app.exec();
}

int main(int argc, char **argv){
  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  QClipboard *clip = QApplication::clipboard();
  QMimeData *data = new QMimeData;
  data->setHtml("<font color='red'>TEST</font>");
  clip->setMimeData(data);
  return app.exec();
}

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode

And then try pasting it somewhere where html is accepted (like QTextEdit). Don't stop the application before you paste the clipboard contents.

**Vadi** · 25th January 2011, 16:52

Thanks. Seems it's certain text fields of Chrome do not accept it... QTextEdid did, Pidgins input field did (albeit stripped the html... while I have seen it render some before).

So now I'm wondering what is the proper format of the HTML is it wanting...

Added after 29 minutes:

This worked:

Qt Code:

Switch view

QMimeData *md = new QMimeData;
    md->setText(*text);
    md->setHtml(*text);
    QApplication::clipboard()->setMimeData(md, QClipboard::Clipboard);

QMimeData *md = new QMimeData;
    md->setText(*text);
    md->setHtml(*text);
    QApplication::clipboard()->setMimeData(md, QClipboard::Clipboard);

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode

Thanks for the help.

Thread: How to use QMimeData::setHtml?

Thread Tools

Search Thread

Display

How to use QMimeData::setHtml?

Re: How to use QMimeData::setHtml?

Re: How to use QMimeData::setHtml?

Re: How to use QMimeData::setHtml?

Re: How to use QMimeData::setHtml?

Similar Threads

QMimeData problems between a QTableWidget and a QTreeWidget

Drag&Drop - Pointer into QMimeData?

QGraphicsTextItem - setHTML()

Is there a known problem with QMimeData on Mac OS X?

MIME database and QMimedata

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions