Question

I need my QT application to create a table and copy this table into the clipboard, so that it can be pasted as table into libreoffice Writer or MS Word later.

My first approach was to create html code for the table and insert it into the clipboard with

QClipboard *clipboard = QApplication::clipboard();
QMimeData *mimeData = new QMimeData();
mimeData->setData("text/html", html.toUtf8());
clipboard->setMimeData(mimeData, QClipboard::Clipboard);

This approach didn’t work. When pasting, the table cells where just appended to each other and inserted without formatting.

My second approach using RTF:

QTextDocument rtfDocument;
rtfDocument.setHtml(html);

But I found no way to copy this QTextDocument into the clipboard. Is there any?
If I could get the RTF code out of the QTextDocument, I could use a way like

QClipboard *clipboard = QApplication::clipboard();
QMimeData *mimeData = new QMimeData();
mimeData->setData("text/rtf", rtfDocument.getCode());
clipboard->setMimeData(mimeData, QClipboard::Clipboard);

But I also didn’t find a function returning the rtf code.

edit:

With the last code box above I have a working way to copy rtf code into the clipboard. So any solution that can create RTF code representing a table would solve my problem.

Answer 1

You could try using QTextDocument::toHtml() and set the mime type to text/html