Q3TextBrowser Class Reference
[Qt3Support module]

Detailed Description

The Q3TextBrowser class provides a rich text browser with hypertext navigation.

This class extends Q3TextEdit (in read-only mode), adding some navigation functionality so that users can follow links in hypertext documents. The contents of Q3TextEdit is set with setText(), but Q3TextBrowser has an additional function, setSource(), which makes it possible to set the text to a named document. The name is looked up in the text view's mime source factory. If a document name ends with an anchor (for example, "#anchor"), the text browser automatically scrolls to that position (using scrollToAnchor()). When the user clicks on a hyperlink, the browser will call setSource() itself, with the link's href value as argument. You can track the current source by connetion to the sourceChanged() signal.

Q3TextBrowser provides backward() and forward() slots which you can use to implement Back and Forward buttons. The home() slot sets the text to the very first document displayed. The linkClicked() signal is emitted when the user clicks a link.

By using Q3TextEdit::setMimeSourceFactory() you can provide your own subclass of Q3MimeSourceFactory. This makes it possible to access data from anywhere, for example from a network or from a database. See Q3MimeSourceFactory::data() for details.

If you intend using the mime factory to read the data directly from the file system, you may have to specify the encoding for the file extension you are using. For example:

 mimeSourceFactory()->setExtensionType("qml", "text/utf8");

This is to ensure that the factory is able to resolve the document names.

Q3TextBrowser interprets the tags it processes in accordance with the default style sheet. Change the style sheet with setStyleSheet(); see QStyleSheet for details.

If you want to provide your users with editable rich text use Q3TextEdit. If you want a text browser without hypertext navigation use Q3TextEdit, and use Q3TextEdit::setReadOnly() to disable editing. If you just need to display a small piece of rich text use QSimpleRichText or QLabel.

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