Clickable links in QListWidget with Rich Text

Scla

Hello everyone,
I am trying to implement a way to have clickable URLs in a QListWidget.
I am using the HTMLDelegate class described in this reply: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1956781
The text is interpreted correctly and it's painted correctly, but the URLs in <a> tags are not clickable in any way.

Example text for an item: Sample text <a href="http://sample.com">this is an url</a> and <b>this is bold text</b>
Does anyone have any ideas how I can make the URLs clickable?

I'm on Qt 6.4, if it is a relevant information.

SGaist

Hi,

If memory serves well, you would implement the editorEvent method and there detect whether the cursor is on top of your link and use QDesktopServices to open it.

Scla

@SGaist Hello, thanks for the answer!
I think the editorEvent route may be the one I'm looking for, but I'm not really sure on how to implement it.
Can I ask you to give it a go?

SGaist

Something along the line of:

bool MyItemDelegate::editorEvent(QEvent *event, QAbstractItemModel *model, const QStyleOptionViewItem &option, const QModelIndex &index)
{
     if (event->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonRelease) {
         // check if link text is under cursor
         if (linkIsUnderCursor) {
             QString url = index.data().toString();
             QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl(url));
             return true;
         }
     }
     return QStyledItemDelegate.editorEvent(event, model, option, index);

Scla

@SGaist Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is based on the assumption that only one URL will be present in the message, which is not the case

SGaist

That's an information you did not give. In any case, the idea is the same except that you have to find in which part of the text the cursor is hovering. You might be able to leverage the implementation of QLabel to replicate the behaviour here.

GayaneAlaverdyan

@SGaist How can I check that the link is under cursor?

SGaist

@GayaneAlaverdyan did you check the QLabel implementation as suggested above ?