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><br />Resets the displayed text to the specified one.
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  void append(const QString text)
  Appends the specified text to the displayed text.

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


#include <QApplication&gt;
#include <QTextEdit&gt;

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();
}