I guess you can use setItemDelegate method of the treeview to setup custom painter for your treeview items. In the delegate s paint method you can use QTextDocument to load item s text as html and render it. Please check if an example below would work for you:
treeview initialization:
...
// create simple model for a tree view
QStandardItemModel *model = new QStandardItemModel();
QModelIndex parentItem;
for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i)
{
parentItem = model->index(0, 0, parentItem);
model->insertRows(0, 1, parentItem);
model->insertColumns(0, 1, parentItem);
QModelIndex index = model->index(0, 0, parentItem);
model->setData(index, "<span>blah-blah <b>some text</b> other blah</span>");
}
// create custom delegate
HTMLDelegate* delegate = new HTMLDelegate();
// set model and delegate to the treeview object
ui->treeView->setModel(model);
ui->treeView->setItemDelegate(delegate);
...
custom delegate implementation
class HTMLDelegate : public QStyledItemDelegate
{
protected:
void paint ( QPainter * painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem & option, const QModelIndex & index ) const;
QSize sizeHint ( const QStyleOptionViewItem & option, const QModelIndex & index ) const;
};
void HTMLDelegate::paint(QPainter* painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem & option, const QModelIndex &index) const
{
QStyleOptionViewItemV4 options = option;
initStyleOption(&options, index);
painter->save();
QTextDocument doc;
doc.setHtml(options.text);
options.text = "";
options.widget->style()->drawControl(QStyle::CE_ItemViewItem, &options, painter);
painter->translate(options.rect.left(), options.rect.top());
QRect clip(0, 0, options.rect.width(), options.rect.height());
doc.drawContents(painter, clip);
painter->restore();
}
QSize HTMLDelegate::sizeHint ( const QStyleOptionViewItem & option, const QModelIndex & index ) const
{
QStyleOptionViewItemV4 options = option;
initStyleOption(&options, index);
QTextDocument doc;
doc.setHtml(options.text);
doc.setTextWidth(options.rect.width());
return QSize(doc.idealWidth(), doc.size().height());
}
hope this helps, regards
update0: changes to HTMLDelegate to make icons visible and different pen color for selected items
void HTMLDelegate::paint(QPainter* painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem & option, const QModelIndex &index) const
{
QStyleOptionViewItemV4 options = option;
initStyleOption(&options, index);
painter->save();
QTextDocument doc;
doc.setHtml(options.text);
options.text = "";
options.widget->style()->drawControl(QStyle::CE_ItemViewItem, &options, painter);
// shift text right to make icon visible
QSize iconSize = options.icon.actualSize(options.rect.size());
painter->translate(options.rect.left()+iconSize.width(), options.rect.top());
QRect clip(0, 0, options.rect.width()+iconSize.width(), options.rect.height());
//doc.drawContents(painter, clip);
painter->setClipRect(clip);
QAbstractTextDocumentLayout::PaintContext ctx;
// set text color to red for selected item
if (option.state & QStyle::State_Selected)
ctx.palette.setColor(QPalette::Text, QColor("red"));
ctx.clip = clip;
doc.documentLayout()->draw(painter, ctx);
painter->restore();
}
