Qt5 Syntax Highlighting in QML

Question

I am working on a QtQuick 2.0 presentation and I would like to embed some code samples. is it possible easily to create a syntax highlighting qml element.

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Answer 1

Qt Quick's TextEdit item exposes a textDocument property, of type QQuickTextDocument. This is explicitly exposed so you can use QSyntaxHighlighter directly with the document.

QtQuick textEdit documentation for Qt 5.3