[Qt-interest] QLabel wrap anywhere

[Jordan Upham]

*Ramesh,*
*
*
*Thanks for the tips.  It looks like I'm going to just have to do something
custom.  I thought that would be the case but I figured I would probe the
list to see if anyone had some ideas.
*
Jordan Upham

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Ramesh <ramesh.bs at robosoftin.com> wrote:

>  There are two possibilities,
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> 1)      You need to set the wordwrap property of Qlablel to true, but the
> text gets wrapped only if it have spaces present in it else
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>     It will not.
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> 2)
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3020868/how-to-determine-the-number-of-charecter-will-fit-to-screen-in-qt
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> using QFontMetrics <http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qfontmetrics.html> get
> the string width in pixels. But its still cumbersome,,
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> 3)      If you feel none of the above methods are handy, then you hardcode
> it. There are only 3 types of screen resolution you will have,
>
> S60 5th edition phones one resolution, S603rd edition will have another
> resolution and business series phones will have its own unique resolution
> based on that you categorize and perform the operation.
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> *From:* qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:
> qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] *On Behalf Of *Jordan Upham
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:23 PM
>
> *To:* qt-interest at trolltech.com
> *Subject:* [Qt-interest] QLabel wrap anywhere
>
>
>
> Hi,
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> I'm looking for a way to wrap a QLabel anywhere and not just on line
> breaks.  I know this is possible with QTextEdits and I have thought about
> just using those instead of QLabels where I need this behavior but I am
> running on a mobile device and I am worried about performance of this.  Is
> there a way to figure out how much text of a given string will fit in a
> given width?  I'm thinking it is probably possible with QFontMetrics but I'm
> not sure.
>
>
>
> Thank You,
>
>
> Jordan Upham
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