How to design a solution for QLabel text alignment?

[BlackKnight]

Hi Everyone,

QT newbie here.

Just wondering if there is a way of designing a solution using QT for this requirement.

I have two labels.
label1
label2

Font: Arial (non monospace font)

$ amounts are variable in nature.
The label should be displayed in such a way that it appears like the . are aligned as per the below pics

Sample1
sample1.png

I tried adding the QLabels (label1 and label2) to QVBoxLayout. But it didn't help.

I noticed that input to be right-justified has a range:

//$X.XX e.g. $5.00
//$XX.XX e.g. $50.00
//$XX.XX e.g. $500.00
//$XX.XX e.g. $4999.00 (Max)

If my QString value2 contains the above strings, I count the characters e.g.
5
6
7
8 (Max)

Then I take the value1 let us say $2.36 which will always be 5 chars and do:

value1 = value1.rightJustified(lengthOfValue2String,QLatin1Char(' '), true);

value1 = value1.rightJustified(lengthOfValue2String,QLatin1Char(' '), true);

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The problem obviously is non-monospaced Arial font which I cannot change unfortunately.

But I noticed that if I do QLatin1Char('$') instead of space, both values are aligned as per the images in my original post. But with $ instead of space which I don't want.

Is there a way of using the fillChar with $ and then make them invisible? : )

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks.