On 15 November 2014 03:58, André Pönitz <apoen...@t-online.de> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:06:32AM +0100, Yann Levreau wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > > > I am starting a new project and I am looking for some advice about what > > kind of Qt/QML controls I should use. The purpose is to develop an rich > > text editor using QML. Basically I am going to develop IDE features. > > Until now I have tried the TextArea QML Control. Using this control I get > > a > > > > QQuickTextDocument and QTextDocument on the C++ side. > > > > Am I in the right direction ? Is there any limitations using this > > control that I should know ? Or maybe there is better way to implement > > this (using QWebView or a simple QTextEdit, ... ). > > On the Widget side the proper choice for an text editor base would be > QPlainTextEdit.
In C++, I would use a QTextEdit instead of a QPlainTextEdit, because QTextEdit supports rich text but QPlainTextEdit doesn't. The QSyntaxHighligher class is useful too. There are examples available in the documentation: - Code Editor Example: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-codeeditor-example.html - Syntax Highlighter Example: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtwidgets-richtext-syntaxhighlighter-example.html Or, for a real-world example of an IDE, see the Qt Creator source code: - http://code.woboq.org/qt5/qt-creator/ In QML, yes TextArea would be the best base type. One "limitation" I can think of is that you can't write pure QML -- QQuickTextDocument needs to be accessed from C++ (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qquicktextdocument.html). QML-C++ interaction is very common so this may not be an issue. I haven't used Qt Quick Controls much so I can't say whether it's easier to develop your project in QML or C++. By the way, this discussion should be happening on the Interest mailing list. The Development mailing list is for posts about developing Qt itself. I've included Interest in the CC field -- please remove Development if you reply. Regards, Sze-Howe _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
