Re: using ktexteditor as a base for a disassembly viewer

I also believe that using KSyntaxHighlighting directly is the best approach
with custom delegate. This way you'll also get the Background colors you
want etc.

Best regards
Dominik

Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr., 11. Dez. 2020,
20:25:

> On 2020-12-11 20:19, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > On Freitag, 11. Dezember 2020 16:52:25 CET Sven Brauch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> > PS: How would one even use KSyntaxHighlighting for rendering into a
> >> > QAbstractItemView? That also sounds somewhat nasty hmmm
> >>
> >> That doesn't sound too complicated, or maybe I'm mistaken? For one of
> >> my
> >> applications, I needed HTML rendering once, which I implemented by
> >> creating
> >> a delegate holding a QTextDocument. The delegate just sets the text on
> >> the
> >> document and then draws its contents. The same should work when you
> >> set a
> >> highlighter. Like this (sorry, not the cleanest code, it's already a
> >> few
> >> years old): http://pastie.org/p/6yTw8HZl47KcgvrjSBaDG8
> >
> > Yes, that's obviously an easy approach to take, and for the amount of
> > data I'm
> > expecting should probably work out fine. But note that this approach
> > requires
> > a re-layouting for every paint. A better approach would store the
> > layout (i.e.
> > the text document) per item somehow. Maybe I can just put that into the
> > model
> > itself, next to the highlighting...
> >
> > Anyhow, probably premature optimization, and a KISS approach should
> > work out
> > fine for now.
> >
> >> Otherwise, I'm not sure either. I personally think it will be easier
> >> if you
> >> just use a QTableView, unless you need column-wise text selection. I
> >> think
> >> you could hook everything you need into KTextEditor as well (by e.g.
> >> setting custom context menus depending on the column that was clicked
> >> etc)
> >> but it will require more lines of hacks than you would otherwise need
> >> to
> >> re-create the needed functionality yourself ;) Some applications use
> >> the
> >> text editor for a lot of stuff, maybe that can serve you as
> >> inspiration --
> >> e.g. sublime text comes to mind, which presents its search results
> >> (and
> >> probably other things) as an interactive text document.
> >
> > Right, that could work. But it would let the disassembly view stand out
> > a lot
> > from the other hotspot views.
> >
> > Thank you, unless someone else chimes in with an awesome idea, I really
> > think
> > that we'll have to try the KSyntaxHighlighter + custom delegate
> > approach.
>
> I guess that is the most pragmatic way to go.
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>
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