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When you use Dark Mode, you can display documents in TextEdit with a light or dark background. In TextEdit, choose View > Use Dark Background for Windows (a checkmark indicates the dark background is being used); to turn it off, choose the command again (the checkmark is removed). When you view documents in TextEdit using the dark background, some text and background colors may be displayed differently on the screen to ensure the contents of the document are legible.
Clipboard support is provided by the cut(), copy(), and paste() functions. Text can be selected by mouse in the usual way, unless selectByMouse is set to false; and by keyboard with the Shift+arrow key combinations, unless selectByKeyboard is set to false. To select text programmatically, you can set the selectionStart and selectionEnd properties, or use selectAll() or selectWord().
Sets the horizontal and vertical alignment of the text within the TextEdit item's width and height. By default, the text alignment follows the natural alignment of the text, for example text that is read from left to right will be aligned to the left.
When using the attached property LayoutMirroring::enabled to mirror application layouts, the horizontal alignment of text will also be mirrored. However, the property horizontalAlignment will remain unchanged. To query the effective horizontal alignment of TextEdit, use the read-only property effectiveHorizontalAlignment.
If you set a cursorDelegate for a TextEdit, this delegate will be used for drawing the cursor instead of the standard cursor. An instance of the delegate will be created and managed by the text edit when a cursor is needed, and the x and y properties of delegate instance will be set so as to be one pixel before the top left of the current character.
Applies integer values to specific OpenType features when shaping the text based on the contents in features. This provides advanced access to the font shaping process, and can be used to support font features that are otherwise not covered in the API.
Sets the preferred hinting on the text. This is a hint to the underlying text rendering system to use a certain level of hinting, and has varying support across platforms. See the table in the documentation for QFont::HintingPreference for more details.
Enables or disables the kerning OpenType feature when shaping the text. Disabling this may improve performance when creating or changing the text, at the expense of some cosmetic features. The default value is true.
Sometimes, a font will apply complex rules to a set of characters in order to display them correctly. In some writing systems, such as Brahmic scripts, this is required in order for the text to be legible, but in e.g. Latin script, it is merely a cosmetic feature. Setting the preferShaping property to false will disable all such features when they are not required, which will improve performance in most cases.
While it is composing an input method may rely on mouse or key events from the TextEdit to edit or commit the partial text. This property can be used to determine when to disable events handlers that may interfere with the correct operation of an input method.
Select TextEdit.NativeRendering if you prefer text to look native on the target platform and do not require advanced features such as transformation of the text. Using such features in combination with the NativeRendering render type will lend poor and sometimes pixelated results.
Note: In versions prior to 6.4, the default was false; but if you enabled this property, you could also select text on a touchscreen by dragging your finger across it. This interfered with flicking when TextEdit was used inside a Flickable. However, Qt has supported text selection handles on mobile platforms, and on embedded platforms using Qt Virtual Keyboard, since version 5.7, via QInputMethod. Most users would be surprised if finger dragging selected text rather than flicking the parent Flickable. Therefore, selectByMouse now really means what it says: if true, you can select text by dragging only with a mouse, whereas the platform is expected to provide selection handles on touchscreens. If this change does not suit your application, you can set selectByMouse to false, or import an older API version (for example import QtQuick 6.3) to revert to the previous behavior. The option to revert behavior by changing the import version will be removed in a later version of Qt.
The text to display. If the text format is AutoText the text edit will automatically determine whether the text should be treated as rich text. This determination is made using Qt::mightBeRichText(). However, detection of Markdown is not automatic.
The text-property is mostly suitable for setting the initial content and handling modifications to relatively small text content. The append(), insert() and remove() methods provide more fine-grained control and remarkably better performance for modifying especially large rich text content.
Note that some keyboards use a predictive function. In this case, the text being composed by the input method is not part of this property. The part of the text related to the predictions is underlined and stored in the preeditText property.
The default is TextEdit.PlainText. If the text format is set to TextEdit.AutoText, the text edit will automatically determine whether the text should be treated as rich text. This determination is made using Qt::mightBeRichText(), which can detect the presence of an HTML tag on the first line of text, but cannot distinguish Markdown from plain text.
When this method is called it additionally sets either the selectionStart or the selectionEnd (whichever was at the previous cursor position) to the specified position. This allows you to easily extend and contract the selected text range.
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