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QTextFrame

Inherited by: QTextTable

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The PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame class represents a frame in a PySide.QtGui.QTextDocument .

Text frames provide structure for the text in a document. They are used as generic containers for other document elements. Frames are usually created by using QTextCursor.insertFrame() .

Frames can be used to create hierarchical structures in rich text documents. Each document has a root frame ( QTextDocument.rootFrame() ), and each frame beneath the root frame has a parent frame and a (possibly empty) list of child frames. The parent frame can be found with PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.parentFrame() , and the PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.childFrames() function provides a list of child frames.

Each frame contains at least one text block to enable text cursors to insert new document elements within. As a result, the QTextFrame.iterator class is used to traverse both the blocks and child frames within a given frame. The first and last child elements in the frame can be found with PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.begin() and PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.end() .

A frame also has a format (specified using PySide.QtGui.QTextFrameFormat ) which can be set with PySide.QtGui.QTextObject.setFormat() and read with PySide.QtGui.QTextObject.format() .

Text cursors can be obtained that point to the first and last valid cursor positions within a frame; use the PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.firstCursorPosition() and PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.lastCursorPosition() functions for this. The frame’s extent in the document can be found with PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.firstPosition() and PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.lastPosition() .

You can iterate over a frame’s contents using the QTextFrame.iterator class: this provides read-only access to its internal list of text blocks and child frames.

class PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame(doc)
Parameters:docPySide.QtGui.QTextDocument

Creates a new empty frame for the text document .

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.__iter__()
Return type:PyObject
PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.begin()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame::iterator

Returns an iterator pointing to the first document element inside the frame. Please see the document STL-style-Iterators for more information.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.childFrames()
Return type:

Returns a (possibly empty) list of the frame’s child frames.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.end()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame::iterator

Returns an iterator pointing to the position past the last document element inside the frame. Please see the document STL-Style Iterators for more information.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.firstCursorPosition()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QTextCursor

Returns the first cursor position inside the frame.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.firstPosition()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.int

Returns the first document position inside the frame.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.frameFormat()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QTextFrameFormat

Returns the frame’s format.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.lastCursorPosition()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QTextCursor

Returns the last cursor position inside the frame.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.lastPosition()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.int

Returns the last document position inside the frame.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.parentFrame()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame

Returns the frame’s parent frame. If the frame is the root frame of a document, this will return 0.

PySide.QtGui.QTextFrame.setFrameFormat(format)
Parameters:formatPySide.QtGui.QTextFrameFormat

Sets the frame’s format .