Text shifts when control appears...

[MrGarbage]

Hi,

After spending way too much time on this annoying little
problem I've decided to go to the experts..

In Designer I have created this small custom control.
It is a lineEdit with a left and right arrow (Pushbutton) at either
end. Normally the arrows are hidden.

When the control gets focus the arrows appear and clicking
one results in the linedit text changing.

This works fine. However if the text is sufficiently long then
when the arrows appear the text shifts slightly to the left.

I either want to keep the text from shifting, or perhaps
there is a better design where the arrows appear translucently
over the ends of the linedit without effecting the size of the
edit control?

Thank you!

Mark