[PyQt] Here are some images... what widgets should I base the app around?

[Jones, Bryan]

As an example of what can be done by extending a QTextEdit, see the
qutepart widget [1]. This is the core of the Enki editor [2], a good way to
see qutepart in action.

Bryan

[1] https://github.com/hlamer/qutepart
[2] http://enki-editor.org

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:15 PM, David Cortesi <davecortesi at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:49:01 -0800
>> From: Brian Merchant <bhmerchant at gmail.com>
>> To: pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com
>> Subject: [PyQt]
>>
>
>
>> I have made some images to demo a text-editor like app I'd like to make;
>> http://imgur.com/a/2OKph
>>
>> Some features are very familiar: type text to enter it, auto-complete
>> boxes, etc
>
>
> Things like this -- dynamic behavior based on the user's keystrokes in the
> context of the text near the insertion point -- is done using a
> QSyntaxHighlighter [1].
>
> The main use of this is to highlight the different classes of tokens as
> the user types them. For a simple example, to put a wavy red line
> underneath a word that fails spellcheck. Or to make a keyword one color and
> a variable a different color. Obviously this requires close linkage between
> the user's keystrokes and the highlighter. The user types "fro" and that's
> a spelling error, underline it; then the next keystroke is "g" and now it
> is not a spelling error, clear the underline.
>
> The relationship between a QSyntaxHighlighter and an editor is not well
> explained in the doc. The Qt design is to make a syntax highlighter a
> separate object from the editor, I suppose so that you could design it
> separately, and apply one highlighter to multiple different text edit
> widgets. Anyway you subclass QSyntaxHighlighter and specify its behaviors
> by implementing .highlightBlock().
>
> You apply a highlighter, making the highlights appear, by calling its
> .setDocument() method, passing a QTextDocument. At this moment, the
> highlightBlock() method is called for every existing line (or maybe only
> the visible lines?). From then on, highlightBlock() is called for the line
> with the insertion point whenever a character changes. To remove
> highlighting, call its .setDocument() passing None.
>
> I think using this you could implement your auto suggestion dropdown.
> Although I couldn't say how to figure out the x/y coordinates of the
> insertion point to locate the menu.
>
>
>> Some features are not so familiar: you can drag and drop some elements of
>> the text to "flip" their position, some keywords are automatically
>> converted into symbols when typed, and so on
>
>
> Qt's edit widgets (PlainTextEdit and TextEdit) support drag/drop of
> selected text, complete with a nice transparent overlay of the dragged text
> and moving insertion point to show where it will drop. You want to
> implement this but make it behave based on lexical units, not merely based
> on character-by-character moves. Read carefully through the QTextEdit doc
> [2] about drag/drop of mime types. You might be able to,
>
> 1. Select the current lexical unit
> 2. Cut it
> 3. Make it a mime package
> 4. Start a drag/drop
> 5. Let Qt do its thing
> 6. Override the QTextEdit dragMoveEvent() to highlight lexical units under
> the cursor showing where the dragged mime unit can legally go
> 6. Override the QTextEdit dropEvent() to refuse to drop in an illegal
> place, and to animate moving lexical units around when it's legal.
>
> However I have done some experiments with QDrag [3] and friends and found
> it a very difficult API to work with.
>
>
>> My plan is to use PyQt4.
>>
>
> Why?!? We are a couple of years into the Qt5 release after all.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Cortesi
>
> [1] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsyntaxhighlighter.html
>
> [2] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextedit.html#details
>
> [3] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdrag.html
>



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