QTextEdit content type?

[BreakBad]

I'm returning a QTextEdit from my delegate when editing a cell in a view. To populate it I call QTextEdit.setPlainText('example string'). However, nothing is displayed in the text area. Printing out QTextEdit.toPlainText() does show the string I pass in. Why is it then not displaying?

I found this is the API under the plainText property:

If the text edit has another content type, it will not be replaced by plain text if you call toPlainText().

But I see nothing about setting the QTextEdit's content type. I've also tried setText and using QTextBrowser.

tyvm,

BB

[wysota]

Show us your code.

[BreakBad]

def createEditor(self,parent,option,index):
     node = self.getNode(index)
     return ElementTextEdit(node._obj,parent=parent)

def createEditor(self,parent,option,index):
     node = self.getNode(index)
     return ElementTextEdit(node._obj,parent=parent)

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class ElementTextEdit(QtGui.QTextEdit):
   def __init__(self,element,parent=None):
      super(ElementTextEdit,self).__init__(parent)
 
      self.element = element
 
      if self.element.text is not None:
         self.setPlainText(self.element.text)
         print 'toPlainText',self.toPlainText()

class ElementTextEdit(QtGui.QTextEdit):
   def __init__(self,element,parent=None):
      super(ElementTextEdit,self).__init__(parent)
      
      self.element = element
      
      if self.element.text is not None:
         self.setPlainText(self.element.text)
         print 'toPlainText',self.toPlainText()

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edit: Also note I call this on the delegate's parent QTableView widget:

##
   #@brief
   #@return
   #
   def persist_editors(self):
      for i in xrange(self.model().rowCount(self.rootIndex())):
         self.openPersistentEditor(self.model().index(i,1,self.rootIndex()))

##
   #@brief
   #@return
   #
   def persist_editors(self):
      for i in xrange(self.model().rowCount(self.rootIndex())):
         self.openPersistentEditor(self.model().index(i,1,self.rootIndex()))

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[wysota]

Setting the text in the constructor of the widget will not work since the delegate will overwrite it by calling setEditorData on the returned widget.

[BreakBad]

Setting the text in the constructor of the widget will not work since the delegate will overwrite it by calling setEditorData on the returned widget.

I did not implement setEditorData, and I have other widgets(QLineEdit,QDateEdit,etc..) that work fine when setting the value in the constructor.

However, after implementing:

def setEditorData(self,editor,index):
      pass

def setEditorData(self,editor,index):
      pass

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It works. Which makes me wonder why the other widgets where not overwritten aswell? I suppose the default implementation of setEditorData only worked with QTextEdit....

Thanks again.

[wysota]

I don't know what you did with the other widgets so I can't clear your doubts. You can always look into Qt's source code and see for yourself.