What is the Qt equivalent for AutoEllipsis on a QLabel?

bs55

I want my label to trim the text and add an ellipsis (…) when the text become to long but I cannot find this setting Qt.

Example:

myLabel->setText("Short text");
result: Short text

myLabel->setText("Long text with plenty of letters");
result: Long text with ple…

dheerendra

Don't think this option exist. You need to customise it. There is an example in the Qt Examples directory which is on similar line.

aha_1980

@bs55: as @dheerendra said, there is an example: