On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 18:01 -0700, Malyushytsky, Alex wrote: > Have you tried to check width of > QRect QFontMetrics::tightBoundingRect ( const QString & text ) const > Of the QString which has 4 spaces? I've kind of figured that tight bounding rect would be tighter than the other options I've tried but I'll give it a shot. Thanks, Stephan