Beginner: Formatting text output (PyQt4)

[Glen]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:50:14 +0000, Glen wrote:

Ok, obviously, my post didn't come out the way I wanted it to.  In the
first example from my text file below, the dictionary pairs, constructed
from sorted tuples were in straight columns.  When I write them to my
QTextEdit, however, the columns are no longer straight.  Some of the
padding inserted by my call to rightJustified() are not equal to the
actual size of the text, so some rows are longer than others in the text
browser.  I know I've encountered this before, perhaps with Java, but I
can't remember the solution.  How do I get the formatting of my output to
the gui to reflect the output I would get to a file using the builtin
write() function?  Any help is appreciated.  Sorry about the confusion. 

Thanks,
G

> 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