I want to add some syntax highlighting to text being written in QLineEdit, but it does not support rich text formatting, I can not change QlineEdit to something else, so I should find how to set color of text in this widget.
Is there a way to do this?
解决方案
Just found a neat trick for that.
static void setLineEditTextFormat(QLineEdit* lineEdit, const QList<:formatrange>& formats)
{
if(!lineEdit)
return;
QList<:attribute> attributes;
foreach(const QTextLayout::FormatRange& fr, formats)
{
QInputMethodEvent::AttributeType type = QInputMethodEvent::TextFormat;
int start = fr.start - lineEdit->cursorPosition();
int length = fr.length;
QVariant value = fr.format;
attributes.append(QInputMethodEvent::Attribute(type, start, length, value));
}
QInputMethodEvent event(QString(), attributes);
QCoreApplication::sendEvent(lineEdit, &event);
}
static void clearLineEditTextFormat(QLineEdit* lineEdit)
{
setLineEditTextFormat(lineEdit, QList<:formatrange>());
}
// Usage example:
QLineEdit* lineEdit = new QLineEdit;
lineEdit->setText(tr("Task Tracker - Entry"));
QList<:formatrange> formats;
QTextCharFormat f;
f.setFontWeight(QFont::Bold);
QTextLayout::FormatRange fr_task;
fr_task.start = 0;
fr_task.length = 4;
fr_task.format = f;
f.setFontItalic(true);
f.setBackground(Qt::darkYellow);
f.setForeground(Qt::white);
QTextLayout::FormatRange fr_tracker;
fr_tracker.start = 5;
fr_tracker.length = 7;
fr_tracker.format = f;
formats.append(fr_task);
formats.append(fr_tracker);
customizeLineEditText(lineEdit, formats);