Detect Rich Text in QML

[talmage]

Is there an easy way for a Text element to know if its text is Rich Text? I need this for an application that will center unformatted text but display Rich Text as given.

I'm hoping that "Qt::mightBeRichText()":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qt.html#mightBeRichText has been secretly exposed to QML and that I've simply missed it in the Fine Manual. :-)

[mbrasser]

For QtQuick 1.x, the Text element internally uses Qt::mightBeRichText() when textFormat is set to Text.AutoText (which is the default). Does this work for your case, or do you need something more?

[talmage]

I need something more. I am looking for a way to detect Rich Text myself so that I can apply additional formatting, such as setting horizontalAlignment, to plain text. It is not sufficient to use Text.AutoText.

Can call Qt::mightBeRichText() from my QML application?

[mbrasser]

Qt::mightBeRichText() isn't available from QML out-of-the-box -- you'd need to expose it from C++ yourself, or write similar functionality in JS.

[talmage]

That's what I feared. Thanks, mbrasser.

[task_struct]

Hi,

you can use onTextChanged signal in Text element to parse for HTML tags or something like this.