Hello, The Text item required a width to be specified (either explicitly via the width property or implicitly with anchors) so that it knows what area the Text is supposed to be fitting inside, so that it can then perform the elide.
With the code below there is no width set. It then doesn't know where to elide the text because it doesn't know what width the text is supposed to be fitting inside. You should easily be able to specify its width based on its parent Item's width. Mark T -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bo Thorsen Sent: 06 September 2011 09:08 To: [email protected] Subject: [Qt-qml] Text eliding I'm trying to ellide a text item, but it's proving quite complicated. I'm tempted to implement my own C++ based QML class that does this, but it just seems silly. The problem is that Text says it can only elide when you have set the width, but I don't have that. I have something like this: Item { width: parent.width anchors.centerIn: parent Text { id: text1 text: ... elide: Text.ElideRight horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter font.bold: true } Text { id: text2 text: .... } } (most anchors and stuff like that has been omitted) So I want text1 to elide on the right side, when the combined text of the two doesn't fit in the row. What I actually have here is a max width which is parent.width - text2.width. In HTML, it would look like this: "<center><bold>text1</bold>text2</center>", except that text1 should be elided. It might be that there is a way to set something like this on the text2 width: width: max(font.textWidth(text), parent.width - text2.width) But I haven't been able to figure out how to do that. Any good ideas? Bo Thorsen, Fionia Software. -- Expert Qt and C++ developer for hire Contact me if you need expert Qt help http://www.fioniasoftware.dk _______________________________________________ Qt-qml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-qml _______________________________________________ Qt-qml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-qml
