Bringing features from QTextMarkdownWriter

[nuttyartist]

Hey,

I've been using the QTextEdit example that comes with Qt and saw that it supports lists withe nice rendering and handling of checkboxes and other items.

Do you think we can bring it into QMarkdownTextEdit?

Here's the example:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwidgets-richtext-textedit-example.html

[pbek]

QTextEdit is a Rich Text Editor that uses HTML as "base". QMarkdownTextEdit doesn't do HTML, it does Plain Text (with QPlainTextEdit as basis).

Do you think we can bring it into QMarkdownTextEdit?

...so the simple answer is: no 😁

[pbek]

But what was it you are trying to achieve?

[nuttyartist]

But what was it you are trying to achieve?

Well, I mainly want to add rendered checkboxes and bullet lists.

But I also wish to support adding more active, custom widgets into QTextEdit (although that is less of a priority). See: nuttyartist/notes#560

[pbek]

Hehe, please keep me posted about your progress. 😁

[nuttyartist]

Hey there. While I didn't end up adding custom widgets to QTextEdit, I built my own block editor with the model in C++ and the view in QML. The underlying data structure is just plaintext. Here's the progress so far (near the end I show QTextMarkdown with the same underlying plaintext):

Screen.Recording.2023-11-07.at.11.32.13.AM.mov

[pbek]

Wow, nice! Is there also a view where it shows the plain-text? Are you planing on implementing some syntax highlighting for such a plain-text view if there is one?

[nuttyartist]

Is there also a view where it shows the plain-text?

Yes, I just implemented one at this very moment. I'm using QMarkdownTextEdit with the QML exposed by @tim-gromeyer.

[tim-gromeyer]

Hey there. While I didn't end up adding custom widgets to QTextEdit, I built my own block editor with the model in C++ and the view in QML. The underlying data structure is just plaintext. Here's the progress so far (near the end I show QTextMarkdown with the same underlying plaintext):

Screen.Recording.2023-11-07.at.11.32.13.AM.mov

This looks really neat!!

[pbek]

Is there also a view where it shows the plain-text?

Yes, I just implemented one at this very moment. I'm using QMarkdownTextEdit with the QML exposed by @tim-gromeyer.

Awesome!