QToolTip with different fonts

Infestor

Hi,

So i was wondering if it is possible to have the text of a QToolTip have multiple fonts. E.g the first line is bold and the second line is italic and so on.
My assumption is that i have to call QToolTip::showText multiple times and set the font between the calls. However for this i have to change the position of the tooltip after each call and for that i would have to know the height of the tooltip box which i dont think is accessible. So how would i solve this?

SGaist

Hi,

You can use rich text in your string see here.

Infestor

Yes i already tried that but i am quite confused as to how this can be used. When using a QTextEdit (this is what the rich text link leads to) i still can only return a QString which is necessary due to the ToolTip function and that QString is n ot using different fonts. Maybe i am using the QTextEdit wrong too, im not sure.

    QFont f("Arial", 15, QFont::Bold);
    QFont g("Arial", 10, QFont::Bold);
    QTextEdit t;
    t.setFont(f);
    t.append("foo\n");
    t.setFont(g);
    t.append("bar");

    QToolTip::showText(somePos, t.toPlainText());

SGaist

As its name suggests toPlainText returns that: plain text, no formatting. You should get better result with toHtml.

Infestor

Of course. Thank you, that worked.

SGaist

You're welcome !

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