QTextEdit::setHtml(): how can I pass a string with an embedded image?

[mattc]

Hello,
is it possibile to pass to setHtml() a string with a self-contained image? I know I can do the following:

QString html;
html.append("<img src=\"c:\\temp\\sample.png\">");
myTextEdit->setHtml(html);

QString html;
html.append("<img src=\"c:\\temp\\sample.png\">");
myTextEdit->setHtml(html);

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and it works. However, I would like to get rid of the external image file (I am generating it at runtime).

My first attempt was to build the html incrementally by repeteadly calling QTextEdit::insertHtml() and QTextEdit::insertImage(), but that messes things up. I guess that's because I am generating the html by recursion (visiting a tree), so the "start" and "end" tags are usually separated by many calls to "insertHtml()", and formatting gets lost in the way.

I also tried to encode the images in the html using some "base64" encoding snippet found on the net, but it doesn't work.

Thanks

Qt 4.5.1, Vista Sp1, VS Express 2008