[Gambas-devel] Feature request for TextView

[MV]

Hello,

While toying around various widgets, I noticed what seems to be a gap between 
WebBrowser and TextView : in the webbrowser component, you can display images 
with an URL (eventually pointing at the local FS), and in a TextView you can 
only display images out of the local FS by supplying a hard link in the <img 
src=""> tag. But unless I'm making a mistake, there's no way to supply an 
image from memory to neither, and WebBrowser won't even display a page out of 
a String.

I tried to look at the code, but I don't really know C++ nor Qt. What I 
understood is TextView can fetch external references embedded into a document 
from a MimeSourceFactory call, and that you can provide the default factory 
with "handles" on memory stored images for future reference.

So I wondered if it would be extremely difficult to add any Image declared 
with a name to the default MimeSourceFactory, so that a trivial rewrite of 
the String holding the html-like text would point to the Image in memory, 
instead of requiring the use of a local disk cache ?

Hope I was clear enough,

-- 
Manuel Viet