[Qt-interest] Text Layout woes

[David Boddie]

On Friday 18 September 2009 16:12:53, Jason H wrote:

> So then I figured I'd use QTextLayout, and I come to find that QTextLine
> doesn't actually give you the text that will fit. (Issue #3) If it did, I
> could use the line's coords and text with QPainterPath to make my
> paragraph.

There's example code distributed with Qt that shows how to use QTextLayout
and QTextLine to make text fit inside an area - take a look in the
doc/src/snippets/plaintextlayout directory.

There's also a Qt Quarterly article about this, too:

  http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq24-textlayouts.html

The example code was even written in three languages:

  http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq24-shapedtext.zip

David
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David Boddie
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Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks