[Interest] I know I'm just being stupid here...

[Bob Hood]

Thanks, Jason.  That wasn't the exact issue, but it made me realize that the 
settings in Qt Designer were clipping it. Reversing the width/height values of 
the label there got it working.

On 1/24/2019 10:00 AM, Jason H wrote:
> update: boundingRect() applies to QGraphicsItems, for regular QWidgets, you 
> want size() or sizeHint()  (note they are marked virtual)
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 11:53 AM
> *From:* "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>
> *To:* "Bob Hood" <bhood2 at comcast.net>
> *Cc:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] I know I'm just being stupid here...
> It's been a while, but I think you need to provide a boundingRect() 
> implementation that reflects the transformed size.
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 10:18 PM
> *From:* "Bob Hood" <bhood2 at comcast.net>
> *To:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* [Interest] I know I'm just being stupid here...
> I'm trying to render rotated rich text, and it just keeps clipping on me.  I 
> can't seem to find the magic combination that will expand the clipping region.
>
> The simplest paintEvent():
>
>     void VerticalLabel::paintEvent(QPaintEvent*)
>     {
>         QPainter painter(this);
>
>         painter.rotate(-20);
>
>         QTextDocument td;
>         td.setHtml(text());
>         td.drawContents(&painter);
>     }
>
> Slightly more involved paintEvent():
>
>     void VerticalLabel::paintEvent(QPaintEvent*)
>     {
>         QPainter painter(this);
>
>         painter.rotate(-20);
>
>         QTextDocument td;
>         td.setHtml(text());
>     QAbstractTextDocumentLayout::PaintContext ctx;
>         ctx.clip = QRectF(0, 0, 100, 400);
>     td.documentLayout()->draw(&painter, ctx);
>     }
>
> In both cases, I'm going from this without the rotation:
>
>
>
> to this with it:
>
>
>
>
> Question:  How do I alter this clipping so the text is visible when it is 
> vertical? Setting the PaintContext.clip doesn't appear to have any impact no 
> matter what values I put in it, and Google doesn't have any answers, as far 
> as I could find.
>
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