I have a box with a varying width and a word-wrapped text. I need to set new height every time user changes box's width. The box is displayed by QPainter inside paintEvent(QPaintEvent *) function. There is several solutions, for example current (not very smart, i do this in resizeEvent(QResizeEvent *)):
unsigned new_height = 0; // the height i want to find out.
unsigned given_width = width();
QPainter painter (this); // i need painter, because i want to ask it's default font.
QLabel lab; // the widget that can do word-wrap.
lab.setText( "A word wrapped text" ); // the text
lab.setFont( painter.font() ); // set QPainter's default font.
lab.setWordWrap( true ); // enable word-wrap
new_height = lab.heightForWidth( given_width ); // tada! :)
But the code is overkill:
1) Creading QPainter is not good outside paintEvent(QPaintEvent *);
2) BUT i need QPainter to request what font is default for it to ask metrics for that font.
Should i change my code and do this operation with help of QPainter::boundingRect() inside the paintEvent(QPaintEvent *) function? But i'd like to reduce CPU consumption inside the paintEvent(QPaintEvent *) and calculate new height only when width changed, but not every time it displayed.
What is other solutions for the purpose of subject? QFontMectircs?
I think you have the right idea of using QFontMetrics. The whole idea of the class is to assist the situations like you have here. Take a look at QFontMetricsF::boundingRect()
Use your target paint rectangle as the input rect, but set the height to the max that your widget height. I'd just put something like INT_MAX in it just to be sure. :)
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I am trying to implement the same functionality in my widget as it is in cv:: namedWindow.
The goal is to enable zooming and to make the overlay with the grid and the values of pixel's colors directly over the original pixmap. Here is the example: сv picture zoomed:
I inherited the QGraphicsView widget, added to QGraphicsScene the QGraphicsPixmapItem and reimplemented the QWheelEvent so that zooming in and out works correctly now. The problem starts with creating an overlay.
Instead of creating a pack of QGraphicsLineItems and adding them to the scene in order to make the grid, I inherit the QGraphicsRectItem and draw the whole grid on it.
void QGraphicsOverlayItem::paint(QPainter *painter, const QStyleOptionGraphicsItem *option, QWidget *widget)
{
QPen pen(Qt::black);
pen.setWidthF(0.02);
painter->setPen(pen);
painter->setBrush(Qt::BrushStyle::NoBrush);
QVector<QLineF> crossLines = createCrossLines();
painter->drawLines(crossLines);
}
This works very fast. But when I try to drawText with the QPainter and set the QFont:: pointSizeF() as small as possible, it works incorrectly (symbols change their size from small to huge during zooming or even disappear at all). Nevertheless, the best result that I get this way is the following:
the QPainter's drawText() result:
QFont font(painter->font());
font.setPointSizeF(0.1);
font.setLetterSpacing(QFont::SpacingType::AbsoluteSpacing,0.01);
painter->setFont(font);
painter->drawText(432,195,"123");
The easiest way is to add to scene a lot of QGraphicsTextItems and scale them to correct size, but it is too slow.
So the question is how can I subscribe the pixel's color value in the QGraphicsScene directly over the QPixmapItem?
I finally watched through the openCV source code and found what I looked for.
The answer for me was the QTransform matrix. OpenCV developers show the image not by using the scene in the QGraphicsView, but actually painting the image directly on the viewport in the paintEvent.
The QTransform matrix is stored in the class and is passed to QPainter in the beginning of the paintEvent.
void DefaultViewPort::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event)
{
QPainter painter(viewport());
painter.setWorldTransform(param_matrixWorld);
painter.drawImage(QRect(0,0,viewport()->width(),viewport()->height()),image2Draw,QRect(0,0,image2Draw.width(),image2Draw.height()));
If you know the ratio of the image's size to the widget's size, and you also know the scale of QTransform matrix used to paint the image, it is easy to calculate how much area does the single source pixel take on the screen:
qreal ratioX = width() / float(image2Draw.width());
qreal ratioY = height() / float(image2Draw.height());
double pixel_width = qtransform_matrixWorld.m11()*ratioX;
double pixel_height = qtransform_matrixWorld.m11()*ratioY;
If we know the pixel_height, we can just set the QFont::pixelSize like this:
QFont font = painter->font();
font.setPixelSize(pixel_height/5);
painter->setFont(font);
I'm developing a Qt Application and I'm trying to find a way to use QTextEdit as a label with long text without the scroll bar. In my ui I have a QScrollArea and inside of it I want to place a couple off QTextEdit widgets and I only want use scrolling inside QScrollArea. Problem is that no matter how I try to resize the QTextEdit it seems it has a maximum height and cuts of text, even if I set the size manually and QTextEdit::size returns the correct value.
I did the same thing with QLabel and it works fine, but in this case I need some methods that are only provided in QTextEdit.
I found this post:
Resizing QT's QTextEdit to Match Text Height: maximumViewportSize()
And the answer given was the following:
I have solved this issue. There were 2 things that I had to do to get
it to work:
Walk up the widget hierarchy and make sure all the size policies made
sense to ensure that if any child widget wanted to be big/small, then
the parent widget would want to be the same thing.
This is the main
source of the fix. It turns out that since the QTextEdit is inside a
QFrame that is the main widget in a QScrollArea, the QScrollArea has a
constraint that it will not resize the internal widget unless the
"widgetResizable" property is true. The documentation for that is
here: http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qscrollarea.html#widgetResizable-prop.
The documentation was not clear to me until I played around with this
setting and got it to work. From the docs, it seems that this property
only deals with times where the main scroll area wants to resize a
widget (i.e. from parent to child). It actually means that if the main
widget in the scroll area wants to ever resize (i.e. child to parent),
then this setting has to be set to true. So, the moral of the story is
that the QTextEdit code was correct in overriding sizeHint, but the
QScrollArea was ignoring the value returned from the main frame's
sizeHint.
The problem is that I have no idea how to access the QTextEdit's QScrollArea to enable widgetResizable. Can anyone explain how I can achieve this or suggest a different way of resizing QTextEdit to perfectly fit it's content?
This will allow the height of the text box to change as required. You can edit the code a little to handle the width as well.
connect( m_textField, SIGNAL( textChanged() ), this, SLOT( onTextChanged() ) );
void MyClass::onTextChanged()
{
QSize size = m_textField->document()->size().toSize();
m_textField->setFixedHeight( size.height() + 3 );
}
Try this one :
QTextEdit textEdit;
textEdit.setHtml("<p>test test test test test test</p><p>|||||||||</p>");
textEdit.show();
textEdit.setFixedWidth(textEdit.document()->idealWidth() +
textEdit.contentsMargins().left() +
textEdit.contentsMargins().right());
Without a concrete example it's difficult to judge, but... it sounds as if you simply want a QTextEdit whose sizeHint depends on the current document size.
class text_edit: public QTextEdit {
using super = QTextEdit;
public:
explicit text_edit (QWidget *parent = nullptr)
: super(parent)
{
setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Preferred, QSizePolicy::Minimum);
setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(Qt::ScrollBarAlwaysOff);
setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(Qt::ScrollBarAlwaysOff);
}
virtual QSize sizeHint () const override
{
QSize s(document()->size().toSize());
/*
* Make sure width and height have `usable' values.
*/
s.rwidth() = std::max(100, s.width());
s.rheight() = std::max(100, s.height());
return(s);
}
protected:
virtual void resizeEvent (QResizeEvent *event) override
{
/*
* If the widget has been resized then the size hint will
* also have changed. Call updateGeometry to make sure
* any layouts are notified of the change.
*/
updateGeometry();
super::resizeEvent(event);
}
};
Then use as...
QScrollArea sa;
sa.setWidgetResizable(true);
text_edit te;
te.setPlainText(...);
sa.setWidget(&te);
sa.show();
It appears to work as expected in the few tests I've done.
In ui i defined QTextEdit *textEdit object. I write it as height scalable-content :
int count = 0;
QString str = "";
// set textEdit text
ui->textEdit->setText("hfdsf\ncsad\nfsc\dajkjkjkjhhkdkca\n925");
str = ui->textEdit->toPlainText();
for(int i = 0;i < str.length();i++)
if(str.at(i).cell() == '\n')
count++;
// resize textEdit (width and height)
ui->textEdit->resize(ui->textEdit->fontMetrics().width("this is the max-length line in qlabel")
, ui->textEdit->fontMetrics().height() * (count + 2));
Notice : this work if you change QTextEdit font face or size! just in height scalable (before every thing set your QTextEdit frameShape to BOX).
if you want do width scalable-content, you should do these steps :
read QTextEdit(textEdit object) text as line to line
calculate every line length
select maximum of line length
use of QTextEdit::fontMetrics().width(QString str) for investigate str size in width
I hope this can help you...
I have a QLabel that contains an image. I need to ensure that the image allways takes 100% of the QLabel width, but preserving aspect ration is just as important. This means I also need to increase QLabel height so that the image fits. Like on this image, the height must be fit:
I Qt designer I see no way to specify preferred aspect ratio, so I just tried to override resize event and try to force correct height upon resize:
void QPictureLabel::resizeEvent(QResizeEvent *event)
{
qDebug()<<"Resized.";
// Current image width in pixels
float pw = myPixmap.width();
// current label width in pixels
float my_width = width();
// ratio of label and image width can decide the new required label height
float new_h = (my_width/pw)*myPixmap.height();
// This is an attempt to prevent endless loop... didn't work out
if(new_h!=height()) {
// Force new height (that works)
resize(my_width, new_h);
// Tell the layout to move other elements (that doesn't work at all!)
updateGeometry();
}
}
Before adding the updateGeometry call it just looked like this:
As you can see (I highlighted it with red frame), the label indeed expanded as necessary. But other widgets do not care about that.
I added updateGeometry call, but the result was endless loop for some reason. I need the correct way to inform the layout that QLabel requires more space.
but the result was endless loop for some reason
This is documented, read documentation on resizeEvent(). Shf's solution should work for you.
I am doing a software with a drawing surface that represent a plot (like a sin function) (A child of QWidget) and I would like to have a QScrollBar acting like a QScrollArea. So if my drawing widget show show 750 dots (my plot is made of dots), but there are 1000 dots, I would like the slider of the ScrollBar to fill 75% of the available space.
I can't use a QScrollArea because the scroll is proportionnal with the size of the widget it contains. In my case, the scroll must be proportionnal with the number of dots on the screen. I know how to get my ratio, but I don't know how to setup correctly the QScrollBar
Example: I edited the value of PageStep, but I don't understand how this work. I can set pageStep to 100 with a range of [0,99] and it will fill the half of the QScrollBar.
My interface:
QWidget (Vertical Layout) //Main Widget
Drawing Surface (Child of QWidget)
QScrollBar (Horizontal)
Well, I think I am able to do something with this:
http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/qscrollbar.html
The relationship between a document length, the range of values used in a scroll bar, and the page step is simple in many common situations. The scroll bar's range of values is determined by subtracting a chosen page step from some value representing the length of the document. In such cases, the following equation is useful: document length = maximum() - minimum() + pageStep().
So in my case the length is the number of dots and I can set minimum() to 0. So, as you can see on the picture, to do something like QScrollArea. The proportion is: PercentageVisible = PageStep / Length and another equation is Length = PageStep + Max.
I have two equations, two missing values (PageStep and Maximum) and two known values (PercentageVisible and Length).
Example: I have 1024 dots, but only 75% of them are shown.
0.75 = PageStep / 1024 ----------> PageStep = 768
1024 = Max + 768 ----------------> Max = 256
You can try it in your software and it will works. I know there's not so much people that will needs to reproduce this because QScrollArea will do the job in most of the case.
By example, this code is in a slot reacting from a resize event:
ui.sbarRange->setPageStep(u64SampleCount * dRatio);
ui.sbarRange->setMaximum(u64SampleCount - ui.sbarRange->pageStep());
You can create a new QWidget subclass and reimplement sizeHint and paintEvent. In the paintEvent you can use event->rect() to determine which area is currently exposed and needs to be drawn. Note that paintEvent must be fast if you don't want your window to freeze. Also you need to put created widget in QScrollArea.
Here is a simple example that draws a sinusoid:
class SinWidget : public QWidget {
public:
QSize sizeHint() const {
return QSize(10000, 200);
}
void paintEvent(QPaintEvent* event) {
QPainter painter(this);
for(int x = event->rect().left(); x <= event->rect().right(); x++) {
painter.drawPoint(x, 100.0 + qSin(0.05 * x) * 20.0);
}
}
};
QScrollArea area;
area.setWidget(new SinWidget());
area.show();
This example will work fine with very large widget size (e.g. 100 000 pixels). So full repaint or memory allocation doesn't happen. You only need to keep your paintEvent fast.
I use a QTextEdit for some inputs. But I want to adjust the height of the box. Can I set the height based on the number of lines I want to have visible at a time?
If you use QPlainTextEdit, something like this should do the trick:
void SetHeight (QPlainTextEdit* edit, int nRows)
{
QFontMetrics m (edit -> font()) ;
int RowHeight = m.lineSpacing() ;
edit -> setFixedHeight (nRows * RowHeight) ;
}
You might want to add two or three pixels as margin; experiment will tell.
Improving the accepted answer about QPlainTextEdit. In addition to lineSpacing, value for setFixedHeight should contain: 2 margins of the underlying QTextDocument, 2 widths of the frame and widget's contents margins. Besides that, QFontMetrics must be got from a font of the document, not of the widget itself. So, hypothetical function setHeight should read as follows:
void setHeight (QPlainTextEdit *ptxt, int nRows)
{
QTextDocument *pdoc = ptxt->document ();
QFontMetrics fm (pdoc->defaultFont ());
QMargins margins = ptxt->contentsMargins ();
int nHeight = fm.lineSpacing () * nRows +
(pdoc->documentMargin () + ptxt->frameWidth ()) * 2 +
margins.top () + margins.bottom ();
ptxt->setFixedHeight (nHeight);
}
Use QFont to determine the height of a single line of text in the QTextEdit (QTextEdit should have a font property). After that multiply the QFont's height value with the number of lines you want to show and set the widget's (minimum-)height to that value.
QTextEdit is a normal widget, so you can use minimumHeight property. I believe, however, that it is really impossible to set minimum height based on number of lines. This would resize automagically the minimum size of a widget every time you change size of the font. But if you know the size of the font, you can set some usable minimum size of your widget.
This should work:
QTextEdit *myEdit = new QTextEdit(myContentString);
QSize myEditSize = myEdit->document()->size().toSize();
myEditSize.setWidth(QWIDGETSIZE_MAX);
myEdit->setMaximumSize(myEditSize);