Show text on QToolButton instead of icon?

[lansing]

I have a QAction with checkable, icon and text all set. And then I assigned it to the menu and a QToolButton . It looks fine on the menu with icon and text showing side by side. However for the QToolButton, I want to set a shorter text and show it instead of the icon and text from the QAction.

pMenu->addAction(m_pActionShowMyDialog);
    
m_ui->myDialogButton->setDefaultAction(m_pActionShowMyDialog);
m_ui->myDialogButton->setText("MD");

I tried to setText on the button after setting the QAction but it still shows the icon.

[SGaist]

Hi,

You can use QToolButton::setToolButtonStyle.

[lansing]

@SGaist

Hi, how do I set it to a different text than the one from the action? The text from the action is too long for the button and I want to set it to a shorter one.

[SGaist]

You can use the QAction::iconText property.

[lansing]

@SGaist

Thank you it works.

[JoeCFD]

@SGaist This does not work anymore with Qt 5.15.3 on Ubuntu 22.04. My tool button works fine on Ubuntu 18.04.

[SGaist]

@JoeCFD what if you use the Qt version from the distribution ?

[JoeCFD]

@SGaist Qt 5.15.3 is the one in the distribution of Ubuntu 22.04 and QToolButton with flag Qt::ToolButtonTextOnly still shows the icon. I solved the issue by setting an empty icon for this flag. Before, I did not need to.

[SGaist]

@JoeCFD from the looks of it, it could be an Ubuntu specific bug.