[Interest] QLabel inconsistent sizing with word wrap

[Christoph Feck]

On Friday 18 July 2014 03:59:15 Tony Rietwyk wrote:
> Hi Everybody.
> 
> In my Qt 4.8.6 application I cannot understand why this QLabel
> widget's sizing varies wildly depending on the text content - even
> for similar text! The QLabel has only WordWrap switched on, and
> Alignment Top/Left.  All of the widgets shown have size policy
> Preferred, except for the top level with the black border that has
> horizontal and vertical both set to MinimumExpanding.  I've
> checked the source records and both descriptions are plain text
> without any line breaks, etc.
> 
> There are lots of hits when googling, but few answers.
> 
> Can anyone shed light on this?  Has the text layout code been
> improved in v5?

Your description does not state the expected behavior. If you want the 
label to have a fixed width, independent of the contents, use 
setFixedWidth().

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Christoph Feck
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KDE Quality Team