http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3254652/several-ways-of-placing-an-image-in-a-qtextedit
(1)I think this is a very simple question, but when I copy an image I can't paste it in a QTextEdit? Paste is inactive! Also I would like to know how to drag-and-drop a picture.
BTW I use the following code in order to insert a picture into a QTextEdit:
QTextEdit *textEditor = new QTextEdit(0);
QTextDocumentFragment fragment;
fragment = QTextDocumentFragment::fromHtml("<img src='C:\\aaa.jpg'>");
textEditor->textCursor().insertFragment(fragment);
textEditor->setVisible(true);
(2)
void TextEdit::insertImage()
{
QString file = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, tr("Select an image"),
".", tr("Bitmap Files (*.bmp)\n"
"JPEG (*.jpg *jpeg)\n"
"GIF (*.gif)\n"
"PNG (*.png)\n"));
QUrl Uri ( QString ( "file://%1" ).arg ( file ) );
QImage image = QImageReader ( file ).read();
QTextDocument * textDocument = m_textEdit->document();
textDocument->addResource( QTextDocument::ImageResource, Uri, QVariant ( image ) );
QTextCursor cursor = m_textEdit->textCursor();
QTextImageFormat imageFormat;
imageFormat.setWidth( image.width() );
imageFormat.setHeight( image.height() );
imageFormat.setName( Uri.toString() );
cursor.insertImage(imageFormat);
}
(3)The third way is to inherit QTextEdit and reimplement bool canInsertFromMimeData(const QMimeData* source) const and void insertFromMimeData(const QMimeData* source) functions as followes. Buy the way this method allows to use drag-and-drop or copy-paste mechanisms.
class TextEdit : public QTextEdit { public: bool canInsertFromMimeData(const QMimeData* source) const { return source->hasImage() || source->hasUrls() || QTextEdit::canInsertFromMimeData(source); } void insertFromMimeData(const QMimeData* source) { if (source->hasImage()) { static int i = 1; QUrl url(QString("dropped_image_%1").arg(i++)); dropImage(url, qvariant_cast<QImage>(source->imageData())); } else if (source->hasUrls()) { foreach (QUrl url, source->urls()) { QFileInfo info(url.toLocalFile()); if (QImageReader::supportedImageFormats().contains(info.suffix().toLower().toLatin1())) dropImage(url, QImage(info.filePath())); else dropTextFile(url); } } else { QTextEdit::insertFromMimeData(source); } } private: void dropImage(const QUrl& url, const QImage& image) { if (!image.isNull()) { document()->addResource(QTextDocument::ImageResource, url, image); textCursor().insertImage(url.toString()); } } void dropTextFile(const QUrl& url) { QFile file(url.toLocalFile()); if (file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text)) textCursor().insertText(file.readAll()); } };
Just wanted to share what I find during long investigation :).