4.28. Text widget class

The Text class inherits QTextEdit Qt class.

Widget's input value

A string or any object that can be converted to a string.

Widget's attributes

ro
This attribute holds if the text edit is read-only.
html
If this attribute is set to True, the text edit interprets and render HTML tags. Otherwise plain text is assumed. The default is False.
wrap
If this attribute is set to True lines are wrapped at text edit width. If set to False, wrapping is disabled. If set to an integer value, the wrapping will occur at the corresponding column, text will be wrapped anywhere. The default is True.
use_tab
This attribute holds whether Tab changes focus or is accepted as input. The default is False, Tab changes focus.

Widget's output value

If html is True, the returned value is an unicode HTML representation of the text edit content. Otherwise, the returned value is an unicode plain string.