Displaying a standard icon and text in QLabel

Question

I want to display a standard warning icon along with some description text in QLabel in pyqt. Qlabel doesn't have setIcon function. So how could I do that?

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but here's my solution to this problem:

import qtawesome as qta
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *

class IconLabel(QWidget):

    IconSize = QSize(16, 16)
    HorizontalSpacing = 2

    def __init__(self, qta_id, text, final_stretch=True):
        super(QWidget, self).__init__()

        layout = QHBoxLayout()
        layout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        self.setLayout(layout)

        icon = QLabel()
        icon.setPixmap(qta.icon(qta_id).pixmap(self.IconSize))

        layout.addWidget(icon)
        layout.addSpacing(self.HorizontalSpacing)
        layout.addWidget(QLabel(text))

        if final_stretch:
            layout.addStretch()

I am using QtAwesome to get the desired icon.

Now you can easily insert the icon label into your own PyQt5 layout. Example.

mylayout.addWidget(IconLabel("fa.scissors", "Slicer Limit:"))

What it looks like:

Note that I included an option final_stretch. In a vertical layout, you'll want to keep final_stretch = True for proper left-alignment (see image avove). In a horizontal layout (i.e., when placing multiple IconLabels next to each other in the same row), however, you'll probably want to set final_stretch = False in order to save space.

Answer 2

QLabel doesn't have a setIcon method, but it has setPixmap. But if you use that to set a QPixmap it overrides your text. but there are a few possibilities to achieve what you want:

• use the html-capabilities of the QLabel to display text+image
• use two labels, one with the text and one with the image
• paint the component yourself