How to change font weight at various locations within a QTextEdit

mulfycrowh

Hi folks !

I open this topic again because I get a weird thing.
Here is what I wrote:

void Tools::toHtml(QPlainTextEdit* edit, int location, int charcount, int red, int green, int blue, int fontsize, bool bold, bool underlined)
{
	QTextCursor cursor(edit->document());
	QString highlight;
	QString sfont_beg = "<FONT ";
	QString sfont_end = "</FONT>";
	QString scolor = "color=#" + toHexString(red) + toHexString(green) + toHexString(blue) + " ";
	QString sbold = "span style=font-weight:bold ";
	QString sunderlined = "span style=text-decoration:underline ";
	QString ssize = "size=" + QString::number(fontsize) + ">";
	QString sHtml;

	cursor.setPosition(location, QTextCursor::MoveAnchor);
	cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::Right, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor, charcount);
	highlight = cursor.selectedText();
	sHtml = sfont_beg + scolor.toUpper();
	if (bold)
		sHtml = sHtml.append(sbold);
	if (underlined)
		sHtml = sHtml.append(sunderlined);
	sHtml = sHtml + ssize + highlight + sfont_end;
	cursor.insertHtml(sHtml);

}

I call the function here:

m_tools->toHtml(m_descriptionPlainTextEdit, 0, 17 + msg_description.length(), 0, 133, 255, 25, false, false);

The title that has to be highlighted in blue has a length equal to 17 + msg_description.length().
Everything perfectly runs the first time, not the following ones : all the text in the text edit is highlighted in blue.
I don't see any trouble.

PS: the text edit is cleared each time.

Many thanks for help !

mrjj

Hi
ïf you put edit->clear();
in top, it really should do the same each time.

mulfycrowh

@mrjj Hi ! What do you mean in top ? In toHtml ? It would delete all the content.

mrjj

@mulfycrowh
Well you said
"PS: the text edit is cleared each time."
So I assumed you meant pr call to the function.

If all becomes blue it sounds like all is one paragraph.

You might need to use <p > </p> if the end result is something like

mulfycrowh

@mrjj The idea sounds interesting. I'll test it.
But why everything OK the first time and all the text blue with big size font the other ones ?
It acts as the QTextEdit keeps backup of something.
Thanks again !

mrjj

@mulfycrowh

But why everything OK the first time and all the text blue with big size font the other ones ?

I have not check output of the code but I assume it becomes
one big paragraph and therefore it is all blue.

But only way to tell is to see the generated HTML. step by step.

mulfycrowh

I added the following lines to toHtml ant it runs !

cursor.setPosition(charcount, QTextCursor::MoveAnchor);
cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor::Right, QTextCursor::KeepAnchor, edit->document()->characterCount());
highlight = cursor.selectedText();
sHtml = "<FONT face=\"Arial\" font-weight=\"normal\" COLOR=#000000 size=\"3\">" + highlight + "</FONT>";
cursor.insertHtml(sHtml);

mulfycrowh

Nevertheless, I do not understand size=3 because, in the constructor I wrote:

	font.setPointSize(10);

Why 3 instead 10 ?

3 gives the same size.

mrjj

@mulfycrowh
Not sure what unit "size" is in. Could be an index to a list.
so its size "3".

mulfycrowh

@mrjj Thank you for everything !