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Functions

Detailed Description

The PySide.QtGui.QTextItem class provides all the information required to draw text in a custom paint engine.

When you reimplement your own paint engine, you must reimplement QPaintEngine.drawTextItem() , a function that takes a PySide.QtGui.QTextItem as one of its arguments.

class PySide.QtGui.QTextItem
PySide.QtGui.QTextItem.RenderFlag
Constant Description
QTextItem.RightToLeft Render the text from right to left.
QTextItem.Overline Paint a line above the text.
QTextItem.Underline Paint a line under the text.
QTextItem.StrikeOut Paint a line through the text.
PySide.QtGui.QTextItem.ascent()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.qreal

Corresponds to the PySide.QtGui.QFontMetrics.ascent() of the piece of text that is drawn.

PySide.QtGui.QTextItem.descent()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.qreal

Corresponds to the PySide.QtGui.QFontMetrics.descent() of the piece of text that is drawn.

PySide.QtGui.QTextItem.font()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QFont

Returns the font that should be used to draw the text.

PySide.QtGui.QTextItem.renderFlags()
Return type:PySide.QtGui.QTextItem.RenderFlags

Returns the render flags used.

PySide.QtGui.QTextItem.text()
Return type:unicode

Returns the text that should be drawn.

PySide.QtGui.QTextItem.width()
Return type:PySide.QtCore.qreal

Specifies the total width of the text to be drawn.