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    Question QToolTip doesnt wrap text

    I have a QTreeView and some of the items text gets truncated.
    I want to display a tooltip for those items. The thing is that when i display the tooltip, its also truncated.

    The word wrap only works with spaces. In my case i have a long email, and it cuts me the last 3 or 4 chars. i've tried adding the <p> tags so its rich text, and also just setting it with plain text, but still not working.
    Qt Code:
    1. item->setToolTip(tooltip);
    2. item->setToolTip("<p>" + tooltip+ "</p>"); //both have the same result
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    The hack that i found is that, if i add as many " " (blanks) as the size of the text, then it gets displayed fine.

    Qt Code:
    1. QString filler;
    2. filler.fill(' ', tooltip.size());//we need this filler ir order for QT to not cut the long text in the tooltip.
    3. item->setToolTip(tooltip + filler);
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    If instead of using a variable i set a large text manually, it works great.
    Qt Code:
    1. item->setToolTip("ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttX");
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    any ideas?
    thanks!
    Last edited by superpacko; 16th August 2011 at 22:18. Reason: updated contents

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