QTextItem Class

The QTextItem class provides all the information required to draw text in a custom paint engine. More...

Header:	#include <QTextItem>
qmake:	QT += gui

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Public Types

enum	RenderFlag { RightToLeft, Overline, Underline, StrikeOut }
flags	RenderFlags

Public Functions

qreal	ascent() const
qreal	descent() const
QFont	font() const
QTextItem::RenderFlags	renderFlags() const
QString	text() const
qreal	width() const

Detailed Description

The QTextItem class provides all the information required to draw text in a custom paint engine.

When you reimplement your own paint engine, you must reimplement QPaintEngine::drawTextItem(), a function that takes a QTextItem as one of its arguments.

Member Type Documentation

enum QTextItem::RenderFlagflags QTextItem::RenderFlags

Constant	Value	Description
QTextItem::RightToLeft	0x1	Render the text from right to left.
QTextItem::Overline	0x10	Paint a line above the text.
QTextItem::Underline	0x20	Paint a line under the text.
QTextItem::StrikeOut	0x40	Paint a line through the text.

The RenderFlags type is a typedef for QFlags<RenderFlag>. It stores an OR combination of RenderFlag values.

Member Function Documentation

qreal QTextItem::ascent() const

Corresponds to the ascent of the piece of text that is drawn.

qreal QTextItem::descent() const

Corresponds to the descent of the piece of text that is drawn.

QFont QTextItem::font() const

Returns the font that should be used to draw the text.

QTextItem::RenderFlags QTextItem::renderFlags() const

Returns the render flags used.

QString QTextItem::text() const

Returns the text that should be drawn.

qreal QTextItem::width() const

Specifies the total width of the text to be drawn.