Question

I’m creating a custom control and wanted to make it generic enough to use any orientation. When I try vertical orientation the kerned text isn’t centered.
You can see that best with the character ‘i’ in the attached image.
Any suggestions?

Here’s how I’m rendering the text:

  int flags = Qt::AlignJustify | Qt::AlignVCenter | Qt::TextWrapAnywhere;
  painter.drawText( TextArea, flags, text );

painter is a QPainter. This code is in the paintEvent() method.

Answer 1

Putting a linefeed after each character might do the trick.

Update:

Also, I think you should remove the Qt::AlignJustify flag. I didn’t notice before that you were missing the horizontal centering flag. Try these flags:

int flags = Qt::AlignVCenter | Qt::AlignHCenter | Qt::TextWrapAnywhere;

or

int flags = Qt::AlignCenter | Qt::TextWrapAnywhere;