Fix misplacement of placeholder text in QLineEdit with RTL content

The placeholder text was rendered in the wrong position after clicking
on the clear button in a QLineEdit with right-to-left content. The
button was still taking up space while it was fading out, so the first
paintEvent rendered the placeholder with space reserved for the clear
button. Once the button gets hidden, no new update was issued, so
garbage was left behind.

Fix this by not giving a fading-out clear button any margin space. The
result of this is that the placeholder text is visible underneath the
fading-out clear button. This is preferable to the placeholder text
being first rendered next to the fading-out clear button, and then
popping to the edge when the clear button is hidden (which would have
been the result of issuing a complete update for the line edit at the
end of the fade-out animation).

Fixes: QTBUG-93742
Done-with: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@qt.io>
Change-Id: Id0429362a60bba6839aa02068b00edb15e3ab8ab
Reviewed-by: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@qt.io>
(cherry picked from commit dc794f7622bc00f7ca50fab65d6965695d6d2972)
Reviewed-by: Qt Cherry-pick Bot <cherrypick_bot@qt-project.org>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit_p.cpp b/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit_p.cpp
index 4143b848b5..89fc66d123 100644
--- a/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit_p.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit_p.cpp
@@ -667,10 +667,18 @@ static int effectiveTextMargin(int defaultMargin, const QLineEditPrivate::SideWi
     if (widgets.empty())
         return defaultMargin;
 
-    return defaultMargin + (parameters.margin + parameters.widgetWidth) *
-           int(std::count_if(widgets.begin(), widgets.end(),
+    const auto visibleSideWidgetCount = std::count_if(widgets.begin(), widgets.end(),
                              [](const QLineEditPrivate::SideWidgetEntry &e) {
-                                 return e.widget->isVisibleTo(e.widget->parentWidget()); }));
+#if QT_CONFIG(animation)
+        // a button that's fading out doesn't get any space
+        if (auto* iconButton = qobject_cast<QLineEditIconButton*>(e.widget))
+            return iconButton->needsSpace();
+
+#endif
+        return e.widget->isVisibleTo(e.widget->parentWidget());
+    });
+
+    return defaultMargin + (parameters.margin + parameters.widgetWidth) * visibleSideWidgetCount;
 }
 
 QMargins QLineEditPrivate::effectiveTextMargins() const
diff --git a/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit_p.h b/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit_p.h
index 936cf2d088..c03265e3f9 100644
--- a/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit_p.h
+++ b/src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit_p.h
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ public:
 
     bool shouldHideWithText() const;
     void setHideWithText(bool hide);
+    // m_wasHidden is true unless the button is fading out
+    bool needsSpace() const { return m_wasHidden; }
 #endif
 
 protected: