How to make a label mouse selectable

fs_tigre

Hi,

Is it possible to make a label mouse selectable? In other words what I want is be able to copy the text in a label.

If yes, can someone be so kind and show me how to do this, I read the QLable class reference but I cannot figure it out.

Thanks a lot

mlong

See "setTextInteractionFlags":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qlabel.html#textInteractionFlags-prop, especially Qt::TextSelectableByMouse.

andre

Or, you use a QLineEdit, and set it to read only. If you want, you can also remove the box so it looks like any QLabel.

fs_tigre

It worked.
ui->label_TotalParts->setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::TextSelectableByMouse);

bq. Or, you use a QLineEdit, and set it to read only. If you want, you can also remove the box so it looks like any QLabel.

I tried this but I didn't like the fact that it looked like an input field, since I couldn't removed the box only the outline (border).

How do you remove the actual box?

Thank you all for your help

andre

You can call:
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theLineEdit->setFrame(false);
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Then, you could also make it disabled. However, that will make the text look greyed out too, so you'd have to eiter set the palette or a style sheet. All in all, I think the QLabel::setTextInteractionFlags() is an easier and better solution.