I have a class that inherits from QTableWidget and I'm wondering if it's possible to change the colour of the row label for each row in the table?
I don't want to change the colour of any of the cells or column headings.
Thanks :)
P.S. I would like each row label to have a different colour. The motivation is that I can use these colours as a key/legend as each row in the table corresponds to a differently coloured line on a plot.
EDIT: Image illustrating the elements of the table I am referring to:
Yes it is possible but only with a slight trick. With setVerticalHeaderItem of QTableWidget you can set a QTableWidgetItem even for header rows and there you can define a background brush for each row. However most of the times the background will be ignored because the actual QStyle will override it. Setting the style of the vertical header widget to a style that doesn't change the background however does the trick.
Example:
from PySide import QtGui
app = QtGui.QApplication([])
table = QtGui.QTableWidget(4, 2)
table.show()
for i in range(0, 4):
item = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem('Text')
item.setBackground(QtGui.QColor(i*50, i*30, 200-i*40))
table.setVerticalHeaderItem(i, item)
# print(QtGui.QStyleFactory.keys())
table.verticalHeader().setStyle(QtGui.QStyleFactory.create('CleanLooks'))
app.exec_()
Yes it appears that you can do so, using the QTableWidgetItem functions such as setForeground which you pass through a QBrush object that I believe you can use the QBrush's setColor function to pass it a color. The QTableWidgetItem documentation has a lot of aesthetic-based functions so it looks like what you're looking for especially since it seems to be able to target specific cells/items on the table. If you want to look more into the QTableWidget documentation itself, here's a link to that as well.
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I am new to Qt and I have just managed to make a QTableView work with my model. It has fixed 3 columns. When I open a window, it look ok but when i resize the window, the QTableView itself gets resized but columns' width remains the same. Is there any build-in way to make it work? I want columns to resize to fit the edges of QTableView every the the window gets resized.
This code equally stretches each column so that they fit the table's width.
table->horizontalHeader()->setSectionResizeMode(QHeaderView::Stretch);
Docs:
QHeaderView::setSectionResizeMode
See resize modes here.
There is a header flag to ensure that the QTableView's last column fills up its parent if resized. You can set it like so:
table_view->horizontalHeader()->setStretchLastSection(true);
However, that does not resize the other columns proportionately. If you want to do that as well, you could handle it inside the resizeEvent of your parent thusly:
void QParent::resizeEvent(QResizeEvent *event) {
table_view->setColumnWidth(0, this->width()/3);
table_view->setColumnWidth(1, this->width()/3);
table_view->setColumnWidth(2, this->width()/3);
QMainWindow::resizeEvent(event);
}
QParent class is subclass of QMainWindow.
Widgets QTableView, QTreeView and their derived classes (such as QTableWidget) have this two usefull methods:
QHeaderView* horizontalHeader() const;
QHeaderView* verticalHeader() const;
If you open documentation for a class QHeaderView, you will find methods that set up appearance and behavior of row or column header for item views. You can resolve your problem by one of these methods:
void QHeaderView::stretchLastSection( bool stretch )
As Davy Jones mentioned.
Example:
QTableView *table = new QTableView();
table->horizontalHeader()->setStretchLastSection(true);
void QHeaderView::setResizeMode( ResizeMode mode )
As mode you can set QHeaderView::Stretch or QHeaderView::ResizeToContents.
Unfortunately this method have a drawback - after it's apply you will not be able to change size of columns (or rows) manually (in GUI) or programmatically.
Example:
QTableView *table = new QTableView();
table->horizontalHeader()->setResizeMode(QHeaderView::Stretch);
In PyQt5 you can achieve this in your table_widget by doing:
header = table_widget.horizontalHeader()
header.setSectionResizeMode(QtWidgets.QHeaderView.ResizeToContents)
I have a QTableWidget, and I have a QLabel that I put inside a cell of the table using .setCellWidget().
During run-time I change the span of the QTableWidget cell where the QLabel is, using .setSpan()
BUT when I change the span of the cell where the QLabel is, the QLabel does not resize.
Some code and screenshot below:
def generate_table(self):
global gtable
table = QTableWidget(20, 60)
gtable = table
def create_task(self):
task_widget = QWidget()
task_layout = QHBoxLayout()
task_widget.setLayout(task_layout)
task = QLabelClickable(the_task_name)
task_layout.addWidget(task)
gtable.setCellWidget(selected_row_column[0], selected_row_column[1], task_widget)
// if I include this part of the code, everything looks fine, both cell, widget and label scale properly, as visible through background color, below line is not the problem, notice its in the same function as where I set the cell widget
the_duration = 3
gtable.setSpan(selected_row, selected_column, 1, the_duration)
// Below is how I change the cell span. The rrow and ccolumn are integers, basically just cell coordinates
def save_task(self):
gtable.setSpan(rrow, ccolumn, 1, w_dr.value())
(there's a ton of code all over the place so I included what I thought is relevant, let me know what other parts of the code I should include)
This is what it should look like: (this is what the first span-changing line does)
This is what it looks like: (this is what the last line does)
My question is, How do I resize the QLabel / QWidget to auto fit the cell's updated size?
You can see the first span as correct because it's applied in the same event loop that would update the geometries of the view.
Spanning does not automatically do that (which could be a bug), so the solution is to use updateGeometries(), which:
Updates the geometry of the child widgets of the view.
Which means that all widgets of the view will be correctly resized and updated, including scroll bars and cell widgets.
def save_task(self):
gtable.setSpan(rrow, ccolumn, 1, w_dr.value())
gtable.updateGeometries()
A very important suggestion: avoid using globals, they are not handy as one would think, and in fact the often cause problems and bugs that are difficult to track; use instance members instead (eg. self.gtable).
I am using PyQt based on Qt4. My Editor is PyCharm 2017.3 and my python version is 3.4. I am scraping some text from a website. I am trying to align that text to the center of the cell in a QTableWidget.
item = QTableWidgetItem(scraped_age).setTextAlignment(Qt.AlignHCenter)
self.tableWidget.setItem(x, 2,item)
Therefore while putting the item in the cell, I am trying to align it as per the documentation. The problem is that the data is not showing up.
It did show up when I removed setTextAlignment method as shown below
item = QTableWidgetItem(scraped_age)
self.tableWidget.setItem(x, 2,item)
This line of code:
item = QTableWidgetItem(scraped_age).setTextAlignment(Qt.AlignHCenter)
will not work properly, because it throws away the item it creates before assigning it to the variable. The variable will in fact be set to None, which is the return value of setTextAlignment(). Instead, you must do this:
item = QTableWidgetItem(scraped_age) # create the item
item.setTextAlignment(Qt.AlignHCenter) # change the alignment
This didn't work for me, and I'm not sure if it is because I'm using PyQt5 or it i did something wrong. I was trying to find something similar but for the whole table, and i finally stumbled upon something that worked and lets you center every cells or just one column at a time.
You have to use the delegate method:
#You're probably importing QtWidgets to work with the table
#but you'll also need QtCore for the delegate class
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets
class AlignDelegate(QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate):
def initStyleOption(self, option, index):
super(AlignDelegate, self).initStyleOption(option, index)
option.displayAlignment = QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter
After implementing this in your code, you can add the following to your main window class or wherever the table is defined:
delegate = AlignDelegate(self.tableWidget)
self.tableWidget.setItemDelegateForColumn(2, delegate) #You can repeat this line or
#use a simple iteration / loop
#to align multiple columns
#If you want to do it for all columns:
#self.tableWidget.setItemDelegate(delegate)
Know this is an old question, but hope it can help someone else.
Bit late to the party but for those of you wondering how to do this on pyqt5
table = QTableWidgetItem() #QTWidgets.QTableWidgetItem() if importing QWidget from PyQt5
table.setTextAlignment(number)
setTextAlignment takes an int for the argument (alignment). Put the number in to get the result:
0:left
1:left
2:right
3:right
4:centre
I am using PyQt based on Qt4. My Editor is PyCharm 2017.3 and my python version is 3.4. I am scraping some text from a website. I am trying to align that text to the center of the cell in a QTableWidget.
item = QTableWidgetItem(scraped_age).setTextAlignment(Qt.AlignHCenter)
self.tableWidget.setItem(x, 2,item)
Therefore while putting the item in the cell, I am trying to align it as per the documentation. The problem is that the data is not showing up.
It did show up when I removed setTextAlignment method as shown below
item = QTableWidgetItem(scraped_age)
self.tableWidget.setItem(x, 2,item)
This line of code:
item = QTableWidgetItem(scraped_age).setTextAlignment(Qt.AlignHCenter)
will not work properly, because it throws away the item it creates before assigning it to the variable. The variable will in fact be set to None, which is the return value of setTextAlignment(). Instead, you must do this:
item = QTableWidgetItem(scraped_age) # create the item
item.setTextAlignment(Qt.AlignHCenter) # change the alignment
This didn't work for me, and I'm not sure if it is because I'm using PyQt5 or it i did something wrong. I was trying to find something similar but for the whole table, and i finally stumbled upon something that worked and lets you center every cells or just one column at a time.
You have to use the delegate method:
#You're probably importing QtWidgets to work with the table
#but you'll also need QtCore for the delegate class
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets
class AlignDelegate(QtWidgets.QStyledItemDelegate):
def initStyleOption(self, option, index):
super(AlignDelegate, self).initStyleOption(option, index)
option.displayAlignment = QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter
After implementing this in your code, you can add the following to your main window class or wherever the table is defined:
delegate = AlignDelegate(self.tableWidget)
self.tableWidget.setItemDelegateForColumn(2, delegate) #You can repeat this line or
#use a simple iteration / loop
#to align multiple columns
#If you want to do it for all columns:
#self.tableWidget.setItemDelegate(delegate)
Know this is an old question, but hope it can help someone else.
Bit late to the party but for those of you wondering how to do this on pyqt5
table = QTableWidgetItem() #QTWidgets.QTableWidgetItem() if importing QWidget from PyQt5
table.setTextAlignment(number)
setTextAlignment takes an int for the argument (alignment). Put the number in to get the result:
0:left
1:left
2:right
3:right
4:centre
When I try to insert new rows pressing Enter Key, all looks fine until it exceeds the limit of the window. See example below:
Disalignment example
I tried this (Widget alignment in cell pyqt), that is almost like my problem, but it not fix it.
The next code performs the error:
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
import sys
app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
table = QtWidgets.QTableWidget(0, 1)
def create_empty_row():
widget_completer = QtWidgets.QLineEdit()
widget_completer.returnPressed.connect(
create_empty_row)
_rows = table.rowCount()
table.setRowCount(_rows + 1)
table.setCellWidget(_rows, 0,
widget_completer)
create_empty_row()
table.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
I also try to fill the QTableWidget programmaticly and everything looks well and the QLineEdit are not misaligned. But I have to insert new rows by demand.
How can I align the QLineEdit inside QTableWidget?
Thanks!!
EDIT
Solved using resizeRowToContents
You aren't set the correct geometry for the different widgets. So, the problem is the height of the QTableWidget should be ScreenHeight - QLineEdit.height. With this change the QLineEdit geometry it doesn't match with the QTableWidget and should be aligned.
I hope that this help you,
Regards