Merge QTextDocument

[VRonin]

It will probably be trivial and I just can't find it but is it possible to append a QTextDocument to another?

I thought I could use for (int blockIter = 0; blockIter< tempDocument.blockCount(); ++blockIter) but there is no insertion method either in QTextDocument or in QTextCursor that accepts QTextBlock

Thanks in advance

[kshegunov]

@VRonin
Hi,
Probably the easiest way is to attach a cursor to the document and insert additional data with QTextCursor::insertHtml. Something along the lines of:

QTextDocument document1, document2;

QTextCursor cursor(document1);
cursor.insertHtml(document2.toHtml());
// ...

Kind regards.

[VRonin]

Yes, that's what I ended up doing, but since my document contains resources I needed to handle them separately and it was a nightmare.
Digging around it looks like my problem and Bug #9258 are two sides of the same coin

[kshegunov]

@VRonin
To be frank the QTextDocument class (and friends) could use a good rewrite, but I doubt anyone is interested in that. I'm glad you solved your issue, though.

Cheers!

[VRonin]

Just to solve the issue, even if it's not pretty it works
To append QTextDocument A to QTextDocument B:

• every time you add a resource to A you need to keep track of name and type manually
• add those resources to B making sure you do not run into naming conflict and, if you change a name to a resouce you should amend it's reference in the html code of A
• add the adjusted htm from A to B using the QTextCursor interface

@kshegunov said:

To be frank the QTextDocument class (and friends) could use a good rewrite

Yes they feel really messy