Qt QProgressBar - aligning text

Question

Has anyone any suggestions on how to align the status text on the QProgressBar in Qt? By default in Windows it appears to the right of the bar but I'd prefer to place it either above the bar or within the bar itself without having to extend the object and implement a status label myself.

Screenshot below:

Armanda

Can you show the code how you actually added the text to the right of the progress bar? By default, QProgressBar only shows the percentage of the progress, and this is a read-only property which can be retrieved with QProgressBar.text(), but not modified – Weighbridge

No problem Andreas here's the code: barProgress_->setFormat("Downloading Training Console 1..."); – Armanda

Answer 1

Yet another approach would be to set the alignment of the status text through QProgressBar::setAlignment:

barProgress_->setAlignment(Qt::AlignCenter);

Weighbridge

I think this is possibly the nicest solution so am marking as such. – Armanda

Answer 2

You can use stylesheets to modify the look of the progress bar. Here's an example: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/stylesheet-examples.html#customizing-qprogressbar

Jabon

Answer 3

Thanks to vipw's suggestion above I have achieved the effect I'm looking for with a simple call to setStyleSheet() as follows (there is no spreadsheet currently defined for this app and it's practically finished so the call to this method will save me having to include an entire new css file):

barProgress_->setStyleSheet(QString::fromUtf8("text-align: center;"));

The result is:

Anyway thanks for the help.

Armanda