QTextBrowser::anchorClicked not emitted

VRonin

Using a widget inheriting from QTextBrowser, and calling in the constructor:

    setOpenLinks(false);
    setOpenExternalLinks(false);
    setReadOnly(false);

I add a link to a local file to the document this way:

// destinationPath is QString with the file path, e.g. C:/Temp/afile.dat
    QTextCharFormat fmt;
    fmt.setAnchor(true);
    fmt.setAnchorHref(QUrl::fromLocalFile(destinationPath).toString(QUrl::FullyEncoded));
    fmt.setForeground(QApplication::palette().color(QPalette::Link));
    fmt.setFontUnderline(true);
    QTextCursor cursor = textCursor();
    const QTextCharFormat previousFormat = cursor.charFormat();
    cursor.insertText(origFile.fileName(), fmt);
    cursor.insertText(QStringLiteral(" "), previousFormat);

In the constructor I also do the connection

connect(this, &QTextBrowser::anchorClicked, this, &MTextEdit::urlActivated);

but the slot is never called.

I checked the produced html code and it has <a href=...> in it so any idea why the anchor is never activated?

Thanks in advance

System:
Qt 5.6 on Windows with MSVC2013

Background:
I'm using in my project a modified version of MRichTextEditor the full code for the class is here: header source (the only thing defined in Globals.h is debugConsole that translates into qDebug() and PBglobals::docsRepository() which translates in

QString PBglobals::docsRepository()
{
    return QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() + "/DocsRepo";
}

To test it just drop a file in the textedit and try opening it

Chris Kawa

Setting read only to false switches interaction flags from Qt::TextBrowserInteraction to Qt::TextEditorInteraction which disables interactive links.
To enable them back set the Qt::LinksAccessibleByMouse flag:

setOpenLinks(false);
setOpenExternalLinks(false);
setReadOnly(false);
setTextInteractionFlags(textInteractionFlags() | Qt::LinksAccessibleByMouse);