How to get QLineEdit to elide and align left?

[patrickkidd]

QLineEdit seems to align long content to the right while truncating the content on the left. Seems as though it should be the reverse. the default alignment is already Qt.AlignLeft | Qt.AlignVCenter. How can I make it so the far left characters are already shown?

Thanks!

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Afaics it depends on the cursor position

[patrickkidd]

@Christian-Ehrlicher said in How to get QLineEdit to elide and align left?:

Afaics it depends on the cursor position

I tried lineEdit->home(true) but there was no effect.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

It's working fine for me here:

Are you sure you call it after your set the text?

[patrickkidd]

@Christian-Ehrlicher said in How to get QLineEdit to elide and align left?:

It's working fine for me here:

Are you sure you call it after your set the text?

I can verify that setting the cursor position works using the following simple example, which means that my problem is somewhere else in my code:

def test_QLineEdit_alignment():

    app = QApplication(sys.argv)

    w = QLineEdit()
    w.setReadOnly(True)
    w.resize(50, 20)
    w.setText('1234567890 1234567890')
    w.setCursorPosition(0)
    w.show()
    app.exec()


test_QLineEdit_alignment()

Thanks!