[PyQt] binary file viewer with textEdit (PyQt)

[Mark Summerfield]

On 2010-06-22, sandokan wrote:
> Hi, hope you can help me. I am trying to view whole contents of binary 
file
> (PE file) in Qt TextEdit widget but still running into some problems 
(speed
> is the main problem). I have tried these two ways:
> 1) converting data using "codecs"
> s = codecs.open(self.filename,'rb','mbcs').read()
> self.ui.textEditAscii1.setPlainText(s)
> - this kind of works but is very slow....it take 10+ seconds to open  2kB
> file
> - reading is quite fast but displaying using setPlainText is tooo lazy
> - I have also tried to append file line by line which was even slower
> (hower I could at least process waiting events so the gui was not stuck
> during the file load) .....
> - also zeros (00h) are not displayed at all (not even represented by a
> white space)
> 
> 2) displaying raw data which did not work at all:
> file = open(fd.getOpenFileName(),'rb').read()
> self.ui.textEditAscii1.setPlainText(file)
> print file
> - which prints file quite fine into console but displays only first ASCII
> characters (actualy it displays "MZ" only) into textEdit widget
> - using "self.ui.textEditAscii1.setPlainText(str(file))" did not change
> anything
> 
> Do you guys have any hint how to display larger binary files (let say up 
to
> 10-20 MBs) in textEdit widget without waiting more than few seconds?

Hi Tom,

One thing that slows QTextEdit down is its sophisticated layout engine.
If you can live without that and use a QPlainTextEdit you should get
some speedup straightaway.


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