It sounds like a bug to me, especially if manually calling update on the layout is having no effect. Perhaps what you are seeing is this bug . Apparently that one is fixed in 4.8.0.
I agree it's kinda weird behaviour... adding parentWidget. Resize(parentWidget.sizeHint()) ; after adding text solved the problem, but it's more a hack than an answer.
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