How to Use QTextEdit

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How to use QTextEdit

Overview

With "QTextEdit":http://doc.qt.io/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/qtextedit.html, you get an easy to use class to create a rich text field. With this text field, you can display plain text, but also rich text like HTML-formatted text and images.

Important methods

• void setText(const QString text)<code>
  Resets the displayed text to the specified one.
  *
  

  void append(const QString text)

Appends the specified text to the displayed text.

• QString toHtml()<code>
  Returns the content of the QTextEdit text field as HTML-formatted text.
  *
  

  QString toPlainText()

Returns the content of the QTextEdit text field as plain text.

Example

QTextEdit can be used for multiple purposes, here is a simple editor:

1. include <QApplication>
2. include <QTextEdit>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {

QApplication app(argc, argv);

QTextEdit *txt = new QTextEdit();

txt->setText("Hello, world!");
txt->append("Appending some text…");

txt->show();

return app.exec();

}