How to create a bold, red text label in Qt?

c++ qt text richtext
bastibe picture bastibe · Sep 23, 2009 · Viewed 85.5k times · Source

I want to write a single, bold red line in my application using Qt.

As far as I understand, I would create a QLabel, set its textFormat to rich text and give it a rich text string to display:

QLabel *warning = new QLabel;
warning->setTextFormat(Qt::RichText);
warning->setText("{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252 {\\fonttbl\\f0\\fswiss\\fcharset0 Helvetica;} {\\colortbl;\\red255\\green0\\blue0;} \\f0 \\cf0 this is bold red text}");

I tested this rich text string in a rich text editor and it displays fine.

But Qt displays the whole string with all braces, keywords and backslashes instead of "this is bold red text". What am I doing wrong?

Thank you for your help.

Answer

rpg picture rpg · Sep 23, 2009

Try using HTML formatting: <b><font... etc </b>.

Qt Designer does it like this: <span style=" font-size:8pt; font-weight:600; color:#aa0000;">TextLabel</span>

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