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KevinH · 09-16-2026, 11:14 AM

I found the official Qt6 flowlayout example code and figured out how to modify it to force line breaks with a empty widget with a special objectName.

So I will split out FlowLayout (with the added line break capability) into its own Widgets/class in case it is ever needed someplace else.

Then I will modify your code to look for chars whose string is [GroupName] and special case it to use the GroupName as a QLabel with forced line breaks on both sides.

Once I get that working, I will migrate everything to xml and use special_characters.xml.

I will let you know when I get something working for test purposes.

Thanks!

09-16-2026, 11:14 AM	#41
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 10,093 Karma: 7640000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	I found the official Qt6 flowlayout example code and figured out how to modify it to force line breaks with a empty widget with a special objectName. So I will split out FlowLayout (with the added line break capability) into its own Widgets/class in case it is ever needed someplace else. Then I will modify your code to look for chars whose string is [GroupName] and special case it to use the GroupName as a QLabel with forced line breaks on both sides. Once I get that working, I will migrate everything to xml and use special_characters.xml. I will let you know when I get something working for test purposes. Thanks!