QTextEdit::setAlignment not working.

[Pippin]

Hello,

the following code,

CardLore.setParent(&MainWidget);
CardLore.setReadOnly(true);
QString text = "foo foofoofoo foofoo foofoofoofoo foofoo foofoofoofoo foo foofoo foofoofoo foo foofoo";
CardLore.setText(text);
CardLore.setAlignment(Qt::AlignJustify);
CardLore.resize(447, 98);
CardLore.move(401, 501);

where CardLore is a QTextEdit object, fails to justify the text and I don't know why. What am I missing? I've googled my problem but couldn't find a thread about it that was either recent or working.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Calling setAlignment will make the next paragraph use the alignment. So you have to do:

CardLore.setAlignment(Qt::AlignJustify);
CardLore.append(text);

Hope it helps

[Pippin]

Thanks for your reply!

Unfortunately this didn't work for me, although it works if I replace Qt::AlignJustify with Qt::AlignRight (I have no idea why), but that's not what I want :(

[Pippin]

Status update:

QPainterObject.drawText(QRect(34, 475, 350, 75), Qt::AlignJustify | Qt::TextWordWrap, someText);

does wrap the text, but seems unabled to justify it as well. So either I'm using Qt::AlignJustify the wrong way, or Qt::AlignJustify doesn't work on Ubuntu.

:(

[SGaist]

Are you sure it's not the size of your widget that makes it seems like it's not justified ?

[Pippin]

@SGaist

Well the text was wrapped and each line ended at a different place, so it was clear that the text wasn't justified.

[SGaist]

You were using a QTextEdit and now you are using a painter. What is your current code ?

[Pippin]

I apologize, my main concern was about QTextEdit, and I happened to try to do that (as a totally different issue) on a QImage with QPainter. That failed as well, and I mistook this thread for my newer problem.

I'm still using the code in the OP.