QLabel to stretch with text

[TimJohnson]

Hey guys, I have whats probably a stupid question. I've followed a tutorial to implement my own label type successfully, but when I tried it I could see only one character, because the QLabel does not stretch with the text assigned when I assign text to the QML element for it. The only fix I've had which displays the whole of whatever I assign so far is to put a whole load of spaces in the QLabel's text property from the C++

@ mLabel = new QLabel(QString(" "));@

I couldn't see any properties or methods on the docs that seemed applicable to my situation, or maybe I missed something crucial

Hopefully I explained everything properly.

Thanks for any help you can offer me!

[tzander]

Use the Text item in QML, not the QLabel (widget) based class.
You use that from QML directly, not from C++

[TimJohnson]

I would, but as I said, I was just doing this as an exercise to learn about extending QML via C++ :P

[Jens]

You do not really provide enough context to solve the issue. QLabel should never be used inside a qt quick Item. If you are indeed trying to use a QLabel in a QQuickPaintedItem, it might be that your QLabel size is simply not connected to the size of the QQuickItem and stays fixed size never allowing it to expand to its full size.