QLabel consuming too much space - qt

Question

I use a QLabel and QPLineEdit within a QStackedWidget , the QLable should be nearly the size of the window holding this widget.
But when I set a extra long text to QLabel , it's expanding too much , and I'm not able to reduce the window size horizontally , the minimum width was too much.
I set the size policy of these three widgets to Minimum already , it just won't work for me.
UPDATE
maybe it's better saying like this: how to let QLabel display part of the text , when there's not enough space
SAMPLE CODE
#include <QtGui>
int main ( int argc , char **argv )
{
QApplication app (argc , argv);
QWidget w;
QLabel *label = new QLabel ("Very very very long text");
label->setSizePolicy (QSizePolicy::Minimum , QSizePolicy::Fixed);
QVBoxLayout layout (&w);
layout.addWidget ( label );
w.show();
return app.exec();
}

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, the simplest thing to do is simply to ignore that label's horizontal size hint.
As long as you have other widgets in there (or force a minimum width manually to the container), this should do what you want:
#include <QtGui>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QLabel *l1 = new QLabel("This very long text doesn't influence "
"the width of the parent widget");
l1->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Ignored, QSizePolicy::Fixed);
// Style just to make it clear that the widget is
// being resized to fit the parent, it doesn't "overflow"
l1->setFrameShape(QFrame::Box);
l1->setFrameShadow(QFrame::Raised);
l1->setAlignment(Qt::AlignHCenter);
QLabel *l2 = new QLabel("This influences the width");
l2->setFrameShape(QFrame::Box);
l2->setFrameShadow(QFrame::Raised);
QWidget w;
QVBoxLayout layout(&w);
layout.addWidget(l1);
layout.addWidget(l2);
w.show();
return app.exec();
}