[Qt-qml] Basic rich text editing in QML

Cornelius Hald hald at icandy.de
Mon Jun 27 10:12:12 CEST 2011


Hi,

could someone from the QML-Team please comment on this? What's the road
map for rich text editing? Does it make sense to roll my own solution
now or should I just wait a month?

Thanks!
Conny


On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 19:06 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm trying to do basic rich text editing in QML. Basically I'd like to
> do a simple text editor where you, for example, can select text and mark
> it as bold or italic.
> 
> So far I've looked at TextEdit, but it looks like I have to copy the
> value of the 'text' property, add markup, and write it back. That
> doesn't really look like a solution.
> 
> Is there maybe another text widget in one of the 'components' projects?
> I couldn't find one so far.
> 
> Also I've heard there might come a more feature-full text widget in QML
> 2.0. Is that true? Is there some code already available?
> 
> I'm also willing to use some C++, so would it make sense to inherit
> TextEdit and build on top of that? Or build on top of anything else?
> 
> I'm looking forward to your suggestions.
> 
> Thanks!
> Conny
> 
> 
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