Bounding Text Being Rendered Using QPainter?

[LiamMaru]

I'm rendering some text using a QPainter, using the following call:

@painter->drawText(x, y, Bridge::to_qt(geometry.Data.Text.UTF8String));@

Prior to this, I'm setting the font for the QPainter. How would I find the bounding box of the text plotted at (x y) using a given QFont? Seems like there should be a way...

[giesbert]

Hi,

you can use "this":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qpainter.html#drawText-13 drawText oberload to get the bounding rectangle.

[dangelog]

[quote author="LiamMaru" date="1301932840"]I'm rendering some text using a QPainter, using the following call:

@painter->drawText(x, y, Bridge::to_qt(geometry.Data.Text.UTF8String));@

Prior to this, I'm setting the font for the QPainter. How would I find the bounding box of the text plotted at (x y) using a given QFont? Seems like there should be a way...[/quote]

Since that call doesn't break the text in lines, doesn't handle alignment, etc., you may use QFontMetrics to find out the bounding rectangle of your text.

[giesbert]

But his drawText also does not use line breaking :-)
But you are right, QFontMetrics is anothe sollution, perhaps the better one.

[dangelog]

Actually I was replying to OP, edited the post to make that clear.