Glen wrote:
>> Hello again, I don't blame anyone for not answering my last post, > since >> I obviously hadn't spent much time researching, but I've come a little >> ways and have another question. >> >> How can I better format text output to a QTextEdit object? I'm >> inserting 5 columns into each row. When I write the info to a file, it >> looks like the following: >> >> 42: 115 26: 114 35: 112 19: 108 16: 107 45: 107 40: >> 106 5: 105 41: 104 2: 103 >> 9: 102 48: 102 15: 101 22: 101 27: 101 >> 39: 101 43: 101 10: 100 6: 99 34: 99 32: 98 49: >> 98 20: 97 30: 97 8: 96 17: 96 38: 96 12: 95 >> 14: 95 37: 95 >> 4: 94 13: 94 44: 94 36: 93 3: 92 >> 24: 92 28: 92 31: 91 29: 89 7: 88 >> 1: 87 18: 85 46: 85 33: 84 11: 83 >> 23: 83 47: 82 25: 80 21: 79 50: 56 52: 39 51: >> 38 53: 36 54: 25 55: 18 >> >> When I write the contents of the file to my TextEdit object it comes out >> uneven, something like this: >> 42: 115 26: 114 35: 112 19: 108 16: 107 45: 107 40: 106 >> 5: 105 41: 104 2: 103 9: 102 48: 102 15: 101 22: 101 27: >> 101 39: 101 43: 101 10: 100 6: 99 34: 99 32: 98 49: 98 >> 20: 97 30: 97 8: 96 17: 96 38: 96 12: 95 14: 95 >> 37: 95 4: 94 13: 94 44: 94 36: 93 3: 92 24: 92 28: >> 92 31: 91 29: 89 7: 88 >> 1: 87 18: 85 46: 85 33: 84 11: 83 >> 23: 83 47: 82 25: 80 21: 79 50: 56 52: 39 51: 38 >> 53: 36 54: 25 55: 18 >> >> What seems to be happening is that the font that pyqt is using is not >> fixed width, so I did this: >> qTxtFormat = QTextCharFormat() >> qTxtFormat.setFontFixedPitch(True) >> ui.textEdit.setCurrentCharFormat(qTxtFormat) >> >> Also, I tried using the pyqt formatting such as the following: >> >> qStr = QtCore.QString( QtCore.QString( str(tL2[i][0]) >> ).rightJustified(2) + ':' + QtCore.QString( str(tL2[i][1]) >> ).rightJustified(4) ) >> This still gives me uneven columns. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Glen > Do you need to use QTextEdit for the output? Sounds like maybe you should look at for example the QTableWidget or maybe the QTreeWidget? Tina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
