Qt3 QTextEdit operation mode

cs-cam · 07-02-2006, 09:11 AM

This isn't really a programming question as such but this is the closest forum I could pick.

I use SQLitebrowser to manage a couple of SQLite databases for my web site which is great but the editor wants to edit it rich text mode and I'd rather edit the HTML by hand. I thought I might be able to hack away at the sources but all the UI stuff is in XML files and the only Qt references I can find online are for C.

This is the reference I found which is very helpful but I'm not sure how to translate that to the XML UI file, sample section here:

Code:

            <widget class="QWidget">
                <property name="name">
                    <cstring>WStackPage</cstring>
                </property>
                <attribute name="id">
                    <number>0</number>
                </attribute>
                <grid>
                    <property name="name">
                        <cstring>unnamed</cstring>
                    </property>
                    <widget class="QTextEdit" row="0" column="0">
                        <property name="name">
                            <cstring>textEditor</cstring>
                        </property>
                    </widget>
                </grid>
            </widget>

Basically I need to setTextFormat(PlainText), if anyone knows what they're doing here, any help would be much appreciated

graemef · 07-03-2006, 03:38 AM

My guess would be to add the following:

Code:

                        <property name="textFormat">
                            <cstring>PlainText</cstring>
                        </property>

As shown below

Code:

<widget class="QWidget">
                <property name="name">
                    <cstring>WStackPage</cstring>
                </property>
                <attribute name="id">
                    <number>0</number>
                </attribute>
                <grid>
                    <property name="name">
                        <cstring>unnamed</cstring>
                    </property>
                    <widget class="QTextEdit" row="0" column="0">
                        <property name="name">
                            <cstring>textEditor</cstring>
                        </property>
                        <property name="textFormat">
                            <cstring>PlainText</cstring>
                        </property>
                    </widget>
                </grid>
            </widget>

I would then image you will need to recompile it to pick up the changes.

cs-cam · 07-03-2006, 05:12 AM

Some creative Googling with filetype:ui got me an answer!

Code:

                    <widget class="QTextEdit" row="0" column="0">
                        <property name="name">
                            <cstring>textEditor</cstring>
                        </property>
                        <property name="textFormat">
                            <enum>PlainText</enum>
                        </property>
                    </widget>

Thanks for the suggestion, it put me on the right trail

graemef · 07-03-2006, 05:27 AM

Yes enum rather than cstring, makes sense (now that I think about it) By the way I just went to the documents at trolltech. I suspect that you could also open it in the designer and then do the change you want, and check the change that it made to the file.