Auto new line in text when overflowing

Spook

Hi,
I need to put text from a text file into a specific area in a QImage (see it as a simple rectangle delimited by visible lines). However if the text is too large, then it overflows and that's definitely not the result I want. (Note that I cannot edit the text itself to add line breaks)
Is there any possibility to "generate" a new line? What I've tried so far:

QLabel::setWordWrap (only works if a line break character is present, which is not the case for me
drawText with a bounding box

None of them seem to work for what I'm trying to do.
Thanks!

SGaist

Hi,

Can you share a sample code that reproduces this ?

Spook

Hi, thanks for replying!
Here is some of the code, this is where everything happens:

QImage my_template("char456.png");
QPainter my_painter(&my_template);
my_painter.drawText(QRect(155, 134, 522, 66), Qt::TextWordWrap, "aeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"); //on purpose

The template in question is a simple rectangle, like this:
Image

kshegunov

@Spook
Well, without having a breakable space (that's a white space character) the function has no way of knowing where to break the character sequence. Have you tried passing QTextOption::WrapAnywhere to the QPainter::drawText function? I believe it should be working for you, namely:

QImage image("char.png");
QPainter painter(&image);

QString longString = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa";
QRect envelope(0, 0, image.width(), image.height());

painter.drawText(envelope, longString, QTextOption::WrapAnywhere);