QML Text : How to know currently displaying characters ?

DonCoder

When text truncated in Text element how to get the exact displayed Text from text Element. For example from the follwoing code ...

            Text {
                id: txt
                text: qsTr("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP")
                maximumLineCount: 1
                elide:Text.ElideRight
                font.pointSize: 30
                anchors.fill: parent
                anchors.margins: 10
                verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
            }

Consider Text width is 300 , and the text truncated like "ABCDEFGH...." How can i get the string which is getting displayed out of complete string. I know truncated property will be true and will only tells text is truncated. But here i need Text which is displayed.

Eeli K

@DonCoder Try FontMetrics.elidedText(). You would have to call it in onTruncatedChanged, I think.

DonCoder

@Eeli-K : Correct, This would really help. Thanks
a lot

TextMetrics  {
                id: t_metrics
                text: qsTr("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP")
                elide:Text.ElideRight
                elideWidth: 250
                font.pointSize: 30
            }

            Text {
                id:txt
                x: 316
                y: 275
                maximumLineCount: 1
                anchors.margins: 10
                anchors.fill: parent
                verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
                text:   t_metrics.elidedText
                font.pointSize: 30
            }