Question

Suppose my model has items with the following string for Qt::DisplayRole

<span>blah-blah <b>some text</b> other blah</span>

I want QTreeView (actually, any item view) to render it like a rich text. Instead, item views render it like a pure text by default. How to achieve the desired rendering?

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Actually, this is a search results model. User enters a text, some document is searched against that text and the user is presented with search results, where the words being searched should be bolder than surrounding text.

Answer 1

My answer is mostly inspired by @serge_gubenko’s one. However, there were made several improvements so that the code is finally useful in my application.

class HtmlDelegate : public QStyledItemDelegate
{
protected:
    void paint ( QPainter * painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem & option, const QModelIndex & index ) const;
    QSize sizeHint ( const QStyleOptionViewItem & option, const QModelIndex & index ) const;
};

void HtmlDelegate::paint(QPainter *painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem &option, const QModelIndex &index) const
{
    QStyleOptionViewItemV4 optionV4 = option;
    initStyleOption(&optionV4, index);

    QStyle *style = optionV4.widget? optionV4.widget->style() : QApplication::style();

    QTextDocument doc;
    doc.setHtml(optionV4.text);

    /// Painting item without text
    optionV4.text = QString();
    style->drawControl(QStyle::CE_ItemViewItem, &optionV4, painter);

    QAbstractTextDocumentLayout::PaintContext ctx;

    // Highlighting text if item is selected
    if (optionV4.state & QStyle::State_Selected)
        ctx.palette.setColor(QPalette::Text, optionV4.palette.color(QPalette::Active, QPalette::HighlightedText));

    QRect textRect = style->subElementRect(QStyle::SE_ItemViewItemText, &optionV4);
    painter->save();
    painter->translate(textRect.topLeft());
    painter->setClipRect(textRect.translated(-textRect.topLeft()));
    doc.documentLayout()->draw(painter, ctx);
    painter->restore();
}

QSize HtmlDelegate::sizeHint(const QStyleOptionViewItem &option, const QModelIndex &index) const
{
    QStyleOptionViewItemV4 optionV4 = option;
    initStyleOption(&optionV4, index);

    QTextDocument doc;
    doc.setHtml(optionV4.text);
    doc.setTextWidth(optionV4.rect.width());
    return QSize(doc.idealWidth(), doc.size().height());
}