From ac3390de12120ae63ff646bd6e79923e47d721b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:01:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Gui: add function to determine size that a quantity spin box
 would need to display a certain text

---
 src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.cpp | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.h   |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.cpp b/src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.cpp
index 5cd606d9b5..096b7d4b01 100644
--- a/src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.cpp
@@ -785,6 +785,23 @@ void QuantitySpinBox::stepBy(int steps)
     selectNumber();
 }
 
+QSize QuantitySpinBox::sizeForText(const QString& txt) const
+{
+    const QFontMetrics fm(fontMetrics());
+    int h = lineEdit()->sizeHint().height();
+    int w = QtTools::horizontalAdvance(fm, txt);
+
+    w += 2; // cursor blinking space
+    w += iconHeight;
+
+    QStyleOptionSpinBox opt;
+    initStyleOption(&opt);
+    QSize hint(w, h);
+    QSize size = style()->sizeFromContents(QStyle::CT_SpinBox, &opt, hint, this)
+                        .expandedTo(QApplication::globalStrut());
+    return size;
+}
+
 QSize QuantitySpinBox::sizeHint() const
 {
     Q_D(const QuantitySpinBox);
diff --git a/src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.h b/src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.h
index 8bbd96ca5b..8cdd06eaea 100644
--- a/src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.h
+++ b/src/Gui/QuantitySpinBox.h
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ public:
     virtual QValidator::State validate(QString &input, int &pos) const;
     virtual void fixup(QString &str) const;
 
+    /// This is a helper function to determine the size this widget requires to fully display the text
+    QSize sizeForText(const QString&) const;
     QSize sizeHint() const;
     QSize minimumSizeHint() const;
     bool event(QEvent *event);