How to specify monospace fonts for cross platform Qt applications?

Question

Is there a platform independent way to specify a fixed width font for a Qt widget ?

If I set the font to \"Monospace\" in Designer on Linux, it is not found on Windo

Answer 1

You can use the style hint property of QFont:

QFont font("Monospace");
font.setStyleHint(QFont::TypeWriter);

If the font cannot be found (which happens with Monospace on Windows), Qt's font matching algorithm tries to find a font that matches the given style hint.