From kde-devel  Wed Jan 09 19:37:27 2002
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 19:37:27 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KMessageBox text wrapping
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=101060518805768

On Wednesday 09 January 2002 04:00 am, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Hi!
>
> KMessageBox does not show the whole text if the text cannot
> be reasonably wrapped, for example:
>
> KMessageBox::warningContinueCancel( parent, i18n("Very long file name
> /home/user/kde/kde-i18n/sk/messages/kdebase/kappfile.po") );
>
> This makes it unusable for messages like "Overwrite %1?" where %1 is ur=
l.
> I can overcome the problem using rich text "<qt>Overwrite %1?</qt>",
> but it breaks current translations :-((
>
> Is it a bug or a feature?=20

It's a bug.

>Do I need to use a rich text format?

As a work around, yes. But I will probably add that to KMessageBox.

See the response from TrollTech below.

Cheers,
Waldo

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Dear Waldo,

> Qt 3.0.1 reports a too small sizeHint for QLabel when Qt::WordBreak is=3D=
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 > specified and the text contains a very long unbreakable word.
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 > A testcase is attached (based on qt/examples/layout)
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Thank you for your very precise report. We cannot fix it easily in the Qt=
 3.0,
 because it requires a function to compute the "minimum width" of a text,
 something that QFontMetrics doesn't yet provide. (Maybe we should add a
 fifteenth parameter to boundingRect()?) We'll keep this in the back of o=
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minds
 and try to fix this in 3.1.
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In the meantime, you can work around the problem by prepending <qml> to y=
our
 string, as the bug only shows up in plain-text mode, where QLabel does s=
ome
 fancy heuristics.
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I'm sorry if I cannot offer you more for the moment. Stay tuned.
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Jasmin
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