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Asked: 2026-05-21T14:33:31+00:00

I have a QAbstractItemDelegate and in the paint method, I am trying to paint

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I have a QAbstractItemDelegate and in the paint method, I am trying to paint the text from a label. But the problem I am seeing is that the size hint of the QLabel is always too small for the text it contains. How can I fix this? For example:

QLabel *testlabel = new QLabel();
testlabel->setText("This is some test text that doesnt fit:");
testlabel->adjustSize();

QRect rect(testlabel->geometry());
Qt::Alignment alignFlags = testlabel->alignment();

painter->setFont(testlabel->font());
painter->drawRect(rect);
painter->drawText(rect, alignFlags, testlabel->text());

And then it looks like:

Screenshot

Any ideas why the bounding rectangle is too small?
Thanks
Stephen

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are just trying to draw a bounding rectangle (or something related), you should get the painter’s font metrics and ask for a bounding rectangle for the text you want to display. There are different versions of QFontMetrics::boundingRect that will allow you to specify a containing rectangle so word wrapping will be taken into consideration.

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