[rkward-users] Dialog too small to show all elements

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Wednesday 16 May 2012, Birk Diedenhofen wrote:
> I have some troubles with dialog sizes.
> The following example dialog is too small to show all elements properly.
> If rk.XML.text("Lorem ipsum") is used instead of the complete sentences,
> everything looks fine.

This is a known issue. Ultimately it's an instance of this Qt bug: 
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-8740

In essence, whenever automatic word wrap occurs, Qt's layout mechanism goes 
awry. Whether or not the bug becomes visible, depends on the window manager to 
some degree. We already have a workaround for an even worse symptom of the 
same bug, where the dialog would not show up at all, under some circumstances. 
I'm afraid there is not much more we can do, except for waiting for the Qt bug 
to be fixed.

As a plugin author you can work around this by making sure no automatic word 
wrap occurs. E.g. by inserting adding manual line breaks ("\n\n") into the 
text.

Regards
Thomas
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