TQLabel is used for displaying text or an image. No user interaction functionality is provided. The visual appearance of the label can be configured in various ways, and it can be used for specifying a focus accelerator key for another widget.
l - l. Content Setting Plain text Pass a TQString to setText(). Rich text Pass a TQString that contains rich text to setText(). A pixmap Pass a TQPixmap to setPixmap(). A movie Pass a TQMovie to setMovie(). A number Pass an \fIint\fR or a \fIdouble\fR to setNum(), which converts the number to plain text. Nothing
The look of a TQLabel can be tuned in several ways. All the settings of TQFrame are available for specifying a widget frame. The positioning of the content within the TQLabel widget area can be tuned with setAlignment() and setIndent(). For example, this code sets up a sunken panel with a two-line text in the bottom right corner (both lines being flush with the right side of the label):
A TQLabel is often used as a label for an interactive widget. For this use TQLabel provides a useful mechanism for adding an accelerator key (see QAccel) that will set the keyboard focus to the other widget (called the TQLabel's "buddy"). For example:
In this example, keyboard focus is transferred to the label's buddy (the TQLineEdit) when the user presses Alt+P. You can also use the setBuddy() function to accomplish the same thing.
Constructs a label that displays the text \fItext\fR. The label has a buddy widget, \fIbuddy\fR.
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If the \fItext\fR contains an underlined letter (a letter preceded by an ampersand, &), and the text is in plain text format, when the user presses Alt+ the underlined letter, focus is passed to the buddy widget.
When auto-resizing is enabled the label will resize itself to fit the contents whenever the contents change. The top-left corner is not moved. This is useful for TQLabel widgets that are not managed by a QLayout (e.g., top-level widgets).
The buddy mechanism is only available for TQLabels that contain plain text in which one letter is prefixed with an ampersand, &. This letter is set as the accelerator key. The letter is displayed underlined, and the '&' is not displayed (i.e. the ShowPrefix alignment flag is turned on; see setAlignment()).
In a dialog, you might create two data entry widgets and a label for each, and set up the geometry layout so each label is just to the left of its data entry widget (its "buddy"), for example:
Sets the label contents to plain text containing the textual representation of integer \fInum\fR. Any previous content is cleared. Does nothing if the integer's string representation is the same as the current contents of the label.
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The buddy accelerator, if any, is disabled.
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The label resizes itself if auto-resizing is enabled.
This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.
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Sets the label contents to plain text containing the textual representation of double \fInum\fR. Any previous content is cleared. Does nothing if the double's string representation is the same as the current contents of the label.
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The buddy accelerator, if any, is disabled.
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The label resizes itself if auto-resizing is enabled.
The alignment is a bitwise OR of TQt::AlignmentFlags and TQt::TextFlags values. The ExpandTabs, SingleLine and ShowPrefix flags apply only if the label contains plain text; otherwise they are ignored. The DontClip flag is always ignored. WordBreak applies to both rich text and plain text labels. The BreakAnywhere flag is not supported in TQLabel.
If the label has a buddy, the ShowPrefix flag is forced to TRUE.
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The default alignment is \fCAlignAuto | AlignVCenter | ExpandTabs\fR if the label doesn't have a buddy and \fCAlignAuto | AlignVCenter | ExpandTabs | ShowPrefix\fR if the label has a buddy. If the label contains rich text, additionally WordBreak is turned on.
This property holds the label's text indent in pixels.
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If a label displays text, the indent applies to the left edge if alignment() is AlignLeft, to the right edge if alignment() is AlignRight, to the top edge if alignment() is AlignTop, and to to the bottom edge if alignment() is AlignBottom.
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If indent is negative, or if no indent has been set, the label computes the effective indent as follows: If frameWidth() is 0, the effective indent becomes 0. If frameWidth() is greater than 0, the effective indent becomes half the width of the "x" character of the widget's current font().
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See also alignment, frameWidth, and font.
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Set this property's value with setIndent() and get this property's value with indent().
The text will be interpreted either as a plain text or as a rich text, depending on the text format setting; see setTextFormat(). The default setting is AutoText, i.e. TQLabel will try to auto-detect the format of the text set.
Note that TQLabel is well-suited to display small rich text documents, i.e. those small documents that get their document specific settings (font, text color, link color) from the label's palette and font properties. For large documents, use TQTextEdit in read-only mode instead. TQTextEdit will flicker less on resize and can also provide a scrollbar when necessary.
