How to word wrap a QTreeWidgetItem

Question

I have to populate a QTreeWidget with items (or children of items) that may happen to be too long to fit in a single line, so I\'m looking for a way to word wrap them.

Answer 1

I successfully found a workaround: i envelope a QLabel in the WidgetItem, setting the QLabel to have word wrap capabilities.

item = QTreeWidgetItem()
label = QLabel('long text here')
label.setWordWrap(True)

MyTree.addTopLevelItem(item)
MyTree.setItemWidget(item, 0, label)

the behaviour is exactly the one desired!!

Answer 2

setWordWrap just causing wrapping around word-boundaries... it will NOT force anything on to a new line.

What you are looking for is not possible with the default QTreeWidget. I suggest displaying text that is too long in an alternative way, such as mouse-over text or a separate label. TreeViews should not contain more then one line of text per item.