MS Word like behavior with QTextEdit

[bidjiz]

Hello,

I want to achieve MS Word like behavior with QTextEdit - have text with images, that can be saved to a single file.
I've seen several discussions about that, but still can`t figure out how to do this without overcompicating my solution.

If I add image like this:

QTextCursor cursor = textCursor();

QTextImageFormat image_format;
image_format.setName(path);

cursor.beginEditBlock();

cursor.insertImage(image_format);

cursor.endEditBlock();

I can use toHtml() to get HTML text with links to images. However, all these images are just references to some files.
I can parse my HTML before saving and save all these files separately. But I don`t quite understand how to make QTextEdit use loaded images.

[JonB]

@bidjiz said in MS Word like behavior with QTextEdit:

I want to achieve MS Word like behavior with QTextEdit - have text with images, that can be saved to a single file.

I believe this will be a vain effort, or at least pretty difficult. MS Word is a full-featured word processor, QTextEdit is not. If you look at a saved .docx file you will find it is actually a Zip file, containing other files, presumably including any images.

So far as I know, even if a QTextImageFormat creates an embedded image in the QTextDocument (I don't know whether it does) you cannot serialize a QTextDocument yourself, and even if you use QTextDocumentWriter you can get HTML or ODF out but I don't think those embed images? Try them to see?

[bidjiz]

@JonB Thank you for the answer. I don't want to write my own MS Word, so it's not nessesary to serialize whole QTextDocument. I would be quite happy if I will be able to pass loaded images to QTextDocument. But it seems that it needs valid images from the disk. Sure I can create them in some temporary folder, but it does not look like a good idea.