Question

I want my AbstracttableModel subclass data() method to return html i.e.

PreText<b>Text</b>PostText

And this text must be displayed int table as in html:
PreTextTextPostText

How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can create a delegate for the view that will display the html.

class HtmlDelegate : public QItemDelegate {
public:
    HtmlDelegate(QObject *parent = 0) : QItemDelegate(parent) {}

    // This function is only called to paint the text
    void drawDisplay(QPainter *painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem &option,
                     const QRect &rect, const QString &text) const
    {
        QTextDocument doc;

        // Since the QTextDocument will do all the rendering, the color,
        // and the font have to be put back inside the doc
        QPalette::ColorGroup cg = option.state & QStyle::State_Enabled
                                  ? QPalette::Normal : QPalette::Disabled;
        if (cg == QPalette::Normal && !(option.state & QStyle::State_Active))
            cg = QPalette::Inactive;
        QColor textColor = option.palette.color(cg, QPalette::Text);
        doc.setDefaultStyleSheet(QString("body { color: %1}")
                                 .arg(textColor.name()));
        doc.setDefaultFont(option.font);
        doc.setHtml(text);
        doc.setDocumentMargin(1); // the default is 4 which is too much

        painter->save();
        painter->translate(rect.topLeft());
        doc.drawContents(painter);
        painter->restore();
    }

    // bold and underlined characters take more space
    // so you have to redefine this function as well
    // (if you have a checkbox or an icon in the item, you will have
    // to include their size to the returned value)
    QSize sizeHint(const QStyleOptionViewItem &option,
                   const QModelIndex &index) const
    {
        QTextDocument doc;
        doc.setDefaultFont(option.font);
        doc.setHtml(index.data(Qt::DisplayRole).toString());
        doc.setDocumentMargin(1);
        return doc.size().toSize();
    }
};

Then assign it to a view:

view->setItemDelegateForColumn(0, new HtmlDelegate(view));