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setWordWrap just causing wrapping around word-boundaries... it will NOT force anything on to a new line.

What you are looking for is not possible with the default QTreeWidget. I suggest displaying text that is too long in an alternative way, such as mouse-over text or a separate label. TreeViews should not contain more then one line of text per item.

jcoon 2010-03-03 13:31:56

but if i do item = QTreeWidgetItem(['some text \n and some more'])it is displayed exactly as one would expect: an item on two lines.

japs 2010-03-03 13:53:13

Real (dynamic) word-wrapping is not possible though. The only thing you might do to simulate word-wrap is write your own word-wrap function that adds newlines to the item stings based on the width of the widget, and then create a signal to call that function when the size of the widget changes.

jcoon 2010-03-03 13:58:33

I'm trying to envelope a QLabel or a QText-something within an item, so that then i inherit the word wrapping capabilities form the text box, whatever the one it happens to do the right job

japs 2010-03-03 19:04:57

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I successfully found a workaround: i envelope a QLabel in the WidgetItem, setting the QLabel to have word wrap capabilities.

item = QTreeWidgetItem()
label = QLabel('long text here')
label.setWordWrap(True)

MyTree.addTopLevelItem(item)
MyTree.setItemWidget(item, 0, label)

the behaviour is exactly the one desired!!

japs 2010-03-03 19:59:26

Cool solution, thanks for sharing. Also, you might want to change "clinicalBox" to "label" in your answer.

Jesse Aldridge 2010-03-03 20:51:08

japs 2010-03-24 12:19:46

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