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How to word wrap a QTreeWidgetItem

I have to populate a QTreeWidget with items (or children of items) that may happen to be too long to fit in a single line, so I'm looking for a way to word wrap them.

I thought

myQTreeWidget.setWordWrap(True)

(done via QtDesigner4) would have done the job, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I don't know if it is relevant, but the tree is enveloped in a splitter frame, so the wrapping should be somehow dynamic to allow resizing of the splitter.

Any ideas? I use PyQt4, but hints in any language/binding would be appreciated.

Solution

  • 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!!