Adding gap between QIcon and text in a QPushButton

[shreya_agrawal]

I have a QPushButton, in which I am adding a QIcon and some text. How can I add space between the icon and the text without using a spacer or changing the size of the icon. I tried adding padding, but it isn't giving me desired results.
I also considered adding the icon and the text inside two different labels and then adding those two labels in a QHBoxLayout and adding spacing in it and then finally setting this layout as the button layout, but this would be a complex solution. Is there a better way of doing this?

[JonB]

@shreya_agrawal
Padding is inside whatever widget, likely to either change its size or that of its content. I don't know whether it would work, but did you try margin instead, which is outside of widget?

[shreya_agrawal]

@JonB
Thank you for your reply!
Then, we will have to give margin to the icon, since we need space between the icon and the text, but margin can't be directly given to a QIcon.

[JonB]

@shreya_agrawal
I think you are right, I did not look into it, I thought one could set margin on the icon, but not.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17345648/how-to-change-qpushbutton-icon-text-spacing-with-stylesheets confirms how difficult it is, but offers a number of possibilities. From doing the paint yourself to putting a space at start of text.

[shreya_agrawal]

@JonB
Yes, both approaches do work. I think I will I will just put blank space at start of the text to avoid unnecessary complexity.