title: PyQt 4: Making a label scrollable
body: <p>I am trying to create a label where I can write the current status of the program - e.g.:</p>
  
  <p>"Reading data..."</p>
  
  <p>"Processing data..."</p>
  
  <p>"Complete."</p>
  
  <p>If the text reaches the bottom of the label, then it should automatically scroll with the text, to ensure that it's showing the latest message (like a console window would do). I've been fiddling with labels and scrollareas for more than an hour now... and to no avail. I tried putting my label inside a scrollarea (which seems to be what the related answers on here suggest) - this code is generated from Qt Designer:</p>
  
  <pre><code>class Ui_Dialog(object):
  def setupUi(self, Dialog):
      Dialog.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("Dialog"))
      Dialog.resize(218, 137)
      self.frame = QtGui.QFrame(Dialog)
      self.frame.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(209, 399, 161, 111))
      self.frame.setFrameShape(QtGui.QFrame.StyledPanel)
      self.frame.setFrameShadow(QtGui.QFrame.Raised)
      self.frame.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("frame"))
      self.scrollArea = QtGui.QScrollArea(Dialog)
      self.scrollArea.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 10, 201, 121))
      self.scrollArea.setWidgetResizable(True)
      self.scrollArea.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("scrollArea"))
      self.scrollAreaWidgetContents = QtGui.QWidget()
      self.scrollAreaWidgetContents.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 199, 119))
      self.scrollAreaWidgetContents.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("scrollAreaWidgetContents"))
      self.label = QtGui.QLabel(self.scrollAreaWidgetContents)
      self.label.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(15, 10, 151, 101))
      self.label.setWordWrap(True)
      self.label.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("label"))
      self.scrollArea.setWidget(self.scrollAreaWidgetContents)
  
      self.retranslateUi(Dialog)
      QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(Dialog)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My main .pyw file then contains:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import sys
  from gui_test import *
  
  class MyForm(QtGui.QDialog):
  
      def __init__(self,parent=None):
  
          QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self,parent)
          self.ui = Ui_Dialog()
          self.ui.setupUi(self)
  
          self.ui.label.setText("Warning: When passing a QString to the constructor or calling setText(), make sure to sanitize your input, as QLabel tries to guess whether it displays the text as plain text or as rich text, a subset of HTML 4 markup. You may want to call setTextFormat() explicitly, e.g. in case you expect the text to be in plain format but cannot control the text source (for instance when displaying data loaded from the Web).")
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
      myapp = MyForm()
      myapp.show()
      sys.exit(app.exec_())
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And the scrollarea simply doesn't offer any scrollbars, even though not all the text is being displayed. If I force the scrollbars to always be on, they are greyed out, suggesting it doesn't think there's any text to scroll.</p>
  
  <p>If anyone could help me out here, I'd really appreciate it.</p>