QToolButton - Text on top of icon

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Arvid Schneider

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Mar 15, 2016, 3:41:31 PM3/15/16
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Hi there, 
been searching the forums quite a bit..but couldnt find something reasonable. 
I have a QToolButton and an icon. I dont want to bake the text into the icon image, I d rather have a text using btn.setText("Text").
The problem the text is set right underneath the icon which I dont want in my case. 
It should be on top of the icon. Is there any way to do that? 
I guess with a custom QToolButton..could someone help me out there?

btn = QtGui.QToolButton()
btn.setText("Text")
icon = QtGui.QIcon()
icon.addPixmap(os.path.join('path_to_icon.png', QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.On)
btn.setIcon(icon)

ideally:
icon.setToolButtonStyle(QtCore.Qt.ToolButtonTextOnTopIcon


Is there a way to offset the text using style sheet?
Any help is appreciated

Justin Israel

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Mar 15, 2016, 5:39:42 PM3/15/16
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Hey Arvid,

You could do it with StyleSheets but the pain in the butt is that once you start defining some of the button style stuff, you have to define all of the look. i.e. the gradients and borders, etc.. 

Another way that you could solve this is to just do a custom layout inside of the button:

b = QtGui.QToolButton()
l = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(b)
text = QtGui.QLabel("Text")
pic = QtGui.QLabel()
pic.setPixmap('path_to_icon.png')
pic.setScaledContents(True)
l.addWidget(text, 0, QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
l.addWidget(pic, 0, QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
b.setMinimumSize(100, 60)


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Marcus Ottosson

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Yeah, as soon as you apply even an empty stylesheet, most of the native look is gone. Tis pity. :(

A custom layout, or custom toolbutton is what I would do. Possibly reshuffle the widgets so one ends up ontop of the other, they are likely in a regular QVBoxLayout internally.

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Arvid Schneider

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Mar 15, 2016, 6:13:17 PM3/15/16
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Thanks you two! Always a life saver!
I will try it with custom layouts, and keep you posted. 


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Arvid Schneider

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Mar 16, 2016, 6:03:51 AM3/16/16
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HI Justin, 
I ve tried your example. I didnt mean with "on top" that the text should come first then the icon in the vertical layout. 
If I have square btn, I want the text to float on top of the icon. 
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Justin Israel

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Mar 16, 2016, 9:10:50 PM3/16/16
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That's actually almost the exact same code in the example that I gave, except instead of adding both the image and the text as individual objects to the layout, you just set the picture on the button, and only add the text to the layout. The result is that the image is drawn, centered in the button, and the text is laid out over it in the center.

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Arvid Schneider

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Mar 17, 2016, 6:49:51 AM3/17/16
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Damn.. thanks Justin! That work splendid

b = QtGui.QToolButton()
l = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(b)

b.setFixedSize(50, 50)
b.setIconSize(QtCore.QSize(50,50))
standardFont = QtGui.QFont("Arial", 10, QtGui.QFont.Bold)
standardFont.setCapitalization(QtGui.QFont.AllUppercase)

text = QtGui.QLabel("Text")

b.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon(os.path.join(ICON_DIR, 'csLighting_ftrackTime.png')))
l.setContentsMargins(0,0,0,0)
l.addStretch()
l.addWidget(text, 0, QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
text.setFont(standardFont)
b.show()

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