I'm writing an application with QML and have a need for a texteditor component. Would it be possible, or reasonable to create a QML based front end to the existing texteditor component? Has anyone tried this? Is there another way to get the editor component into my QML application? Thank for any feedback!
Please ask in a Qt forum if there is a way to embed widgets into QtQuick; then this ticket isn't specific to KTextEditor. If widgets cannot be embedded into QtQuick, it would require a rewrite of the editor component.
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #1) > Please ask in a Qt forum if there is a way to embed widgets into QtQuick; > then this ticket isn't specific to KTextEditor. If widgets cannot be > embedded into QtQuick, it would require a rewrite of the editor component. You can go the other way around and embed QtQuick views into widgets views, but you can't embed widgets into QtQuick views.
KTextEditor cannot be embedded into QML, it was never designed for QML and is entirely QWidget based. You should use KSyntaxHighlighting instead, there QML bindings are into works, see: - https://phabricator.kde.org/T11864 - https://invent.kde.org/hein/kquicksyntaxhighlighter/-/merge_requests/1 - https://github.com/schnitzeltony/ksyntax-highlighting-wrapper I'll close this for now.
It's a shame. The KTextEditor view is really great and QML-based apps are the future. The demand for this is only going to rise, not fall. :)
I did do some research before posting this feature request. What Nate and Dominik said about not being able to embed a widget in a qml application definitely appears to be true. I've also tried using KSyntaxHighlighter in a qml Text, but syntax highlighting is really not the most important part of a good text editor, there's so much more that KTextEditor offers. As Nate also mentioned, QML is the future and work on the widgets framework has decreased dramatically. I think it makes sense to port the view logic into QML. I'm not sure however that I have the Qt knowledge to tackle a project like that. That is why I opened a feature request to see what could be done to rewrite the UI related parts of KTextEditor into QML, while keeping as much of the original code as possible. I wonder if it's possible to offer a QmlView alternative.