[PyQt] images in PyQt QTextEdit widgets

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2009 schrieb Greg Smith:
> Hey everyone, I am having a bit of a problem when trying to display a
> jpg thumbnail image in a QTextEdit widget. I have a function that builds
> an html string that has includes the image as well as some properties
> regarding the image sequence that the thumbnail represents. Once the
> string has been created I use the setHtml() method to set the string as
> the contents of the QTextEdit. When I run my tool, I get all the text
> information, but a broken image icon is displayed instead.
>
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> The part that mystifies me is that the html string I created is based
> off of what worked in the Qt Designer when I made the ui, once I got a
> stand in to look right I simply copied the source html and used it as
> the foundation of my method.
>
>
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> The image or images in question are located on our file server which is
> accessed in a typical UNC fashion, OS is WinXp x64.
>
> The example source code that worked looked a bit like
> so:"/////bright1/shows/stu... ../myImage.jpg".  Which I tried in my
> code, but no workie. I've tried "//bright1/shows....",
> "file://///bright1/shows..",  even "/bright1/shows....", but it seams
> that no matter what I try the image won't show. So I am kind puzzled to
> why I can get a picture to work in Designer, but when I try to get it to
> work at runtime of my tool. It doesn't.
>

How about starting with trying to access your image with QFile or QImage.
Once, you get that part working, the rest will be easy.

Pete