[Qt-interest] HTML formatting tags with QPainter::drawText

[Andre Somers]

Sonic wrote:
> Hi
>
>      Limited HTML formatting tags work when displaying text using a QLabel.
> For example, "Hello <b>world</b>" will display "hello" in normal width 
> and "world" in bold.
>
> I want to display some text using QPainter::drawText (or something 
> similar, in a widget's paintEvent) and I want to use this formatting 
> feature. But just calling drawText with the above mentioned string will 
> only print it as it is - i.e. the tags get printed as such.
>
> Can anybody suggest a solution to this?
>   
Sure. Use a QTextDoment for your rich text, and then use drawContents to 
render it.

André