QTextDocument color

[bunjee]

Unfortunately, that didn't help,

I'm still trying to figure out how I can set a default color for a QTextDocument without erasing html tags and stuff like that.

Changing the pen in the paint event has no effect.
There's got to be some convenient way to do so.

[StSav012]

A QTextDocument is never alone. You ought to draw it in a paint function. There, you pass a context parameter. The latter might be just a QAbstractTextDocumentLayout.PaintContext(). It has a palette attribute. There, you set the brush.

That's how it might look like:

class StyledItemDelegate(QStyledItemDelegate):
    def paint(
            self,
            painter: QPainter,
            option: QStyleOptionViewItem,
            index: QModelIndex | QPersistentModelIndex,
    ) -> None:
        self.initStyleOption(option, index)
        style: QStyle
        if option.widget:
            style = option.widget.style()
        else:
            style = QApplication.style()
        doc: QTextDocument = QTextDocument()
        doc.setHtml(option.text)
        option.text = ""
        style.drawControl(QStyle.ControlElement.CE_ItemViewItem, option, painter)
        ctx: QAbstractTextDocumentLayout.PaintContext = QAbstractTextDocumentLayout.PaintContext()
        text_rect: QRect = style.subElementRect(QStyle.SubElement.SE_ItemViewItemText, option)
        painter.save()
 
        if option.state & QStyle.StateFlag.State_Selected:
            ctx.palette.setBrush(QPalette.ColorRole.Text, option.palette.highlightedText())
 
        painter.translate(text_rect.topLeft())
        painter.setClipRect(option.rect.translated(-text_rect.topLeft()))
        painter.translate(0, 0.5 * (option.rect.height() - doc.size().height()))
        doc.documentLayout().draw(painter, ctx)
        painter.restore()

class StyledItemDelegate(QStyledItemDelegate):
    def paint(
            self,
            painter: QPainter,
            option: QStyleOptionViewItem,
            index: QModelIndex | QPersistentModelIndex,
    ) -> None:
        self.initStyleOption(option, index)
        style: QStyle
        if option.widget:
            style = option.widget.style()
        else:
            style = QApplication.style()
        doc: QTextDocument = QTextDocument()
        doc.setHtml(option.text)
        option.text = ""
        style.drawControl(QStyle.ControlElement.CE_ItemViewItem, option, painter)
        ctx: QAbstractTextDocumentLayout.PaintContext = QAbstractTextDocumentLayout.PaintContext()
        text_rect: QRect = style.subElementRect(QStyle.SubElement.SE_ItemViewItemText, option)
        painter.save()

        if option.state & QStyle.StateFlag.State_Selected:
            ctx.palette.setBrush(QPalette.ColorRole.Text, option.palette.highlightedText())

        painter.translate(text_rect.topLeft())
        painter.setClipRect(option.rect.translated(-text_rect.topLeft()))
        painter.translate(0, 0.5 * (option.rect.height() - doc.size().height()))
        doc.documentLayout().draw(painter, ctx)
        painter.restore()

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Punctual as always, me.

[d_stranz]

You do realize that the post you are replying to is nearly 17 years old, right? And that the Qt document links you have provided are to Qt 4.8, two major versions ago, and that they lead to non-existent 404 pages?

Edit:
Actually, it looks like those links might have been automatically inserted by the forum, so never mind.