QFontMetrics.height()

[talk2amulya]

no point arguing about it , i believe i m right here , if you were right, Qt would have included such a function..anyways, u could also check boundingRect(), it takes a string argument..but again, it also returns height AT LEAST that is returned by height()

[Caius Aérobus]

no point arguing about it , i believe i m right here , if you were right, Qt would have included such a function..

but Qt developpers might not thinking about specific cases, such as when all characters are in CAPS, and in this case no one goes below the baseline, which leads to a wrong measure. So since they have developped a way to evaluate string width, it was probably not that difficult to provide a similar functionaliy for height.

[talk2amulya]

i guess for that the best bet u have is boundingRect(QString)...it will give u the height as it is..and it shouldnt affect your program much..its better than to curse Qt whole day ..ciao

[aamer4yu]

Height is basically for the whole string, so its logical for it to be same.
However, font metrics dont consist of just height, there are also ascent and descent.(QFontMetrics::ascent,QFontMetrics::descent).

Have a look at them too.

Also there was som example related to fonts on Qt Labs.. Font Anatomy. I think on SVN, under graphics directory. Have a look at it too, it might help