Hi Andrew, Thanks for the advise, I'll be reading over those documents soon to see the possibilities. But a quick question about your suggestion to use the ListView. I forgot to mention that I want users to be able select text over multiple lines. If I use a list view, would that be possible? I'm assuming no since it seems that each item is it's own view.
Thanks for your fast reply, I appreciate it. -Mark On 2013-09-18, at 2:04 PM, Knight Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Text[1] does indeed support rich text and links, and by extension so do > Silica text components. The text property is just get/set though - so if you > add to it (i.e. += ), there may be some extra overhead of reprocessing the > entire string. Alternatively, you can modify the document itself (the > textDocument property) [2], but this is unsupported even though it works. > > This would be a good use case for a ListView[3] and a Text item as a > delegate. Each time a new text line comes in, you just add it to your model. > The ListView only creates a new delegate for the new text, and view can be > programmed to scroll away. Delegate instances that leave the view are deleted > by default until they come back into view. > > [1] > http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-text.html > [2] > http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qtquick/qquicktextdocument.html > [3] > http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-listview.html > > > HTH, > ak > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] > on behalf of [email protected] [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SailfishDevel] Wanting to port my app, QML questions (TextArea) > > Hi Everyone, > > I have written an IRC client for iOS over the last years, and I am at a > point where I'd like to choose a second platform to port my app over to. > I've always been fond of Qt, but lost interest in it when Nokia > switched to windows phone. Thus, I never got around to learning QML, > which means I only have knowledge of making GUI's with QWidgets. > However, now with Jolla, I'm really interested in starting my port. > > I have a few questions/concerns before I start porting. > > On the iOS side of things, I paste all my IRC messages into a textView > (UITextView for the people here that know). > As of iOS 7, I use the new TextKit features. That is, I can take a > message coming from the TCP socket, make an Attributed String out of it > (I guess a rich string in the Qt world), apply colours, underlining, > bold etc to specific words depending on the colour codes in the message, > then finally append it to the textView. > > I've been skimming through the QML components for Sailfish, and I've > found the TextArea component. There is a string property to it, but I > don't know if I can simply append data to it (specifically rich text > data). It seems to me it's either read, or set. > > Is the TextArea string property modifiable, or is it immutable? If it's > immutable, then perhaps I need to look at webkit. > Secondly, the textView in iOS is capable of having URL links applied to > ranges of text. Is that also possible with TextArea? > > In general, I prefer not to use Webkit, since my html and javascript > skills are really lacking. Hence why I have been using rich text editing > in my iOS app. However, if there is no other possibility, then I just > might have to go the webkit route. > > Those are my biggest questions really. QML is completely new to me, but > seems like a fun and powerful thing to learn. > > Thanks for you help, > > -Mark > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
