Mastering GUI Programming with Python

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To experiment with rich text markup, we're going to write an advertisement for our next big game, Fight Fighter 2, and view it in a QTextBrowser. To begin, get a copy of the application template from Chapter 4, Building Applications with QMainWindow, and call it qt_richtext_demo.py.

In MainWindow.__init__(), add in a QTextBrowser object as the main widget, like so:

        main = qtw.QTextBrowser()        self.setCentralWidget(main)        with open('fight_fighter2.html', 'r') as fh:            main.insertHtml(fh.read())

QTextBrowser is based on QTextEdit, but is read-only and preconfigured to navigate hypertext links. After creating the text browser, we open the fight_fighter2.html file and insert its contents into the browser using the insertHtml() ...