Button type of functionality inside QTextEdit

jswf · wrote on 14 Nov 2010, 23:52

I haven't been able to find anything in the forums about this, so I decided I'd give posting a discussion a shot.

My question: Is it possible to create a button inside a QTextEdit or QPlainTextEdit widget, say with an image that has been embedded in the text?

What I'm looking to do is to embed an image (or use a region of text) in the widget and respond to mouse events with it, i.e., hovering and clicking, and use those events to perform actions.

Thanks for your help!

brandont · wrote on 15 Nov 2010, 01:23

Maybe look around "here?":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/richtext.html

jswf · wrote on 15 Nov 2010, 02:11

Thanks for the reply. But, unfortunately, I haven't seen anything in the documentation regarding a button like event. Any other thoughts?

brandont · wrote on 15 Nov 2010, 21:37

Umm.... "QWebPage?":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qwebpage.html#details
Never took a deep look at it, but I'd imagine they'd use html buttons. Theres a few hits for "button" on that page. Also, apparently it allows for text editing.

webmaster.skelton · wrote on 17 Nov 2010, 20:58

Have you tried giving the text edit a layout, and then simply adding the widget to the layout?

maxvanceffer · wrote on 18 Nov 2010, 11:29

maybe better and more easy just move custom widget to cursor point and then simply show it ?