[Qt-interest] Formatting text

[David Villalobos Cambronero]

Atlant, thanks for you reply.

You hit my point. That is what I need, so, thanks for your help.

Regards
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David


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 14:07, Atlant Schmidt <aschmidt at dekaresearch.com>wrote:

>  David:
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>   You need to define the problem more-precisely for us.
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>   Do you mean that you:
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> 1.       Might know the maximum possible widths of the various text fields
> but
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> 2.       You don’t want any given printout to use the maximum theoretical
> field
> widths but instead use the minimum field width required to display the
> longest actual text values and column headers that the current selection
> has produced?
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>   So, one printout might say:
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>     Word  Definition
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>     --------------------
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>     Cat   A small feline
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>   Whereas another printout might say:
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>     Word                           Definition
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>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>     Antidisestablishmentarianism   The policy opposing the dissolution
> of...
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>   Is that the effect you’re shooting for?
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>   In that case, you’ll probably need to either make two passes through your
>   database query or cache the results of the database query so you can make
>   two passes over the results. The first pass defines the required column
> widths
>   and the second pass builds the output to conform to those widths,
> probably
>   also word-wrapping as required.
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>   Me, being an old-timer, I’d probably do the formatting using some kind of
>   high-tech like building a format string that specifies the required
> column
>   widths and then passing that to “sprintf()” but there’s probably some
>   magically-complex new-age way of accomplishing it as well. ;-)
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>                                                   Atlant
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> *From:* qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:
> qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] *On Behalf Of *David Villalobos
> Cambronero
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2010 15:47 PM
> *To:* qt-interest at trolltech.com
> *Subject:* [Qt-interest] Formatting text
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> Hi all,
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> Here is my problem. I need to print in a QPlainTextEdit some lines of text,
> but I have to do it in some sort of order. From my database I get:
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> Col1 Col2
> Value1 Value2
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> I need this data to be printed in the QPlainTextEdit like this:
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> Col1     Col2
> Value1  Value2
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> Of course there are more rows and I do not know the length of the data.
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards
> ---
> David
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