[Qt-interest] Customized Label

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

On Sunday 08 August 2010 22:54:22 Sajjad wrote:
> I have a subclass of a QLabel class to make it a little customized. With
> the click event the text of the label gets changed.  And the texts stored
> in the vector are of different sizes.
> 
> When  the text changes with the click event, sometimes some of the text get
> cropped.
> 
> 
> Do i have to over-ride the sizeHint() so  that the label gets expanded
> dynamically to fit the text inside the label.
> 
> 
> In  the QLabel subclass constructor i have set  the sizePolicy() to
> expanding. But it seems not working.
> 
> 
> Any hint will be very useful.

Try calling QWidget::updateGeometry() when you change the label's text. This 
tells any associated layout that the widget's sizeHint() has changed and that 
it should recalculate the layout.

HTH,

Sean