Detailed Description
The QTextFrame class represents a frame in a QTextDocument.
Text frames provide structure for the text in a document. They are used as generic containers for other document elements. Frames are usually created by using QTextCursor::insertFrame().
Frames can be used to create hierarchical structures in rich text documents. Each document has a root frame (QTextDocument::rootFrame()), and each frame beneath the root frame has a parent frame and a (possibly empty) list of child frames. The parent frame can be found with parentFrame(), and the childFrames() function provides a list of child frames.
Each frame contains at least one text block to enable text cursors to insert new document elements within. As a result, the QTextFrame::iterator class is used to traverse both the blocks and child frames within a given frame. The first and last child elements in the frame can be found with begin() and end().
A frame also has a format (specified using QTextFrameFormat) which can be set with setFormat() and read with format().
Text cursors can be obtained that point to the first and last valid cursor positions within a frame; use the firstCursorPosition() and lastCursorPosition() functions for this. The frame's extent in the document can be found with firstPosition() and lastPosition().
You can iterate over a frame's contents using the QTextFrame::iterator class: this provides read-only access to its internal list of text blocks and child frames.
See also QTextCursor and QTextDocument.
Member Type Documentation
typedef QTextFrame::Iterator
Qt-style synonym for QTextFrame::iterator.
Member Function Documentation
QTextFrame::QTextFrame ( QTextDocument * document )
Creates a new empty frame for the text document.
QTextFrame::~QTextFrame ()
Destroys the frame, and removes it from the document's layout.
iterator QTextFrame::begin () const
Returns an iterator pointing to the first document element inside the frame.
See also end().
QList<QTextFrame *> QTextFrame::childFrames () const
Returns a (possibly empty) list of the frame's child frames.
See also parentFrame().
iterator QTextFrame::end () const
Returns an iterator pointing to the last document element inside the frame.
See also begin().
QTextCursor QTextFrame::firstCursorPosition () const
Returns the first cursor position inside the frame.
See also lastCursorPosition(), firstPosition(), and lastPosition().
int QTextFrame::firstPosition () const
Returns the first document position inside the frame.
See also lastPosition(), firstCursorPosition(), and lastCursorPosition().
QTextFrameFormat QTextFrame::frameFormat () const
Returns the frame's format.
See also setFrameFormat().
QTextCursor QTextFrame::lastCursorPosition () const
Returns the last cursor position inside the frame.
See also firstCursorPosition(), firstPosition(), and lastPosition().
int QTextFrame::lastPosition () const
Returns the last document position inside the frame.
See also firstPosition(), firstCursorPosition(), and lastCursorPosition().
QTextFrame * QTextFrame::parentFrame () const
Returns the frame's parent frame. If the frame is the root frame of a document, this will return 0.
See also childFrames() and QTextDocument::rootFrame().
void QTextFrame::setFrameFormat ( const QTextFrameFormat & format )
Sets the frame's format.
See also frameFormat().
