Set HTML text to a Label

sgallego84 · ‎10-18-2012

Is there any way to assign HTML text to a Label so the text is correctly formatted?

Something like in Android:

textview.setText(Html.fromHtml("<p>Some text<br> Some text</p>"));

Regards

peter9477 · ‎12-08-2010

Try using the search feature of this board with something like "label html" and you should find answers. In short, wrap it with <html> </html> tags and it should work, though the support appears limited for now.

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sgallego84 · ‎10-18-2012

It works fine for me! Thanks!

Extending the question... is there any way to make <a href=""> links clickable and open the URL in the browser when clicked???

Thanks again!

peter9477 · ‎12-08-2010

There's supposed to be support for something like that, called Active Text. (Look for that phrase in https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/download/releasenotes/ for example.)

Unfortunately there are no samples of how this is meant to work, nor documentation on it aside from that comment in the release notes, as far as I can tell. Possibly it's not really ready for us until the next release (in November?).

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sgallego84 · ‎10-18-2012

We will be waiting for the next release.

Regards!

peter9477 · ‎12-08-2010

Actually, it sounds like it is supposed to work already!

I haven't tested this out myself yet, but @BlackBerryDev replied to my question about this on Twitter yesterday: https://twitter.com/BlackBerryDev/status/261211118243037185

@peter9477 Have you had a look at the active text samples here: http://bbry.lv/RWgC5T ? And checked your TextContentFlag?

Peter Hansen -- (PlayBook and dev-related blog posts at http://peterhansen.ca.)
Author of White Noise and Battery Guru for BB10 and for PlayBook | Get more from your battery!

sgallego84 · ‎10-18-2012

Its work already!!

You have to add the needed flag:

content.flags: TextContentFlag.ActiveText;

With this flag active, a long press over a link open a context menu con share and open options.

Thanks a lot!

peter9477 · ‎12-08-2010

I guess it sort of works.... I can long-press and it shows a pre-defined context menu with "Share" and "Open in..." options, and both of those do the right thing (at least, I can share with BBM, for example, and open in the browser).

If I merely tap on the URL, I get this in my log if I provide an onTriggered handler with the same QML code they have in the example in the docs.

11:41:14.116 ca.engenuity.QmlStudies qt-msg 0  QMetaProperty::read: Unable to handle unregistered datatype 'bb::cascades::ActiveTextTriggeredEvent*' for property 'QDeclarativeBoundSignalParameters::event'

Maybe this would work only in C++ for now?

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Author of White Noise and Battery Guru for BB10 and for PlayBook | Get more from your battery!

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