[PyKDE] Aligning Text in a Table

[Simon Edwards]

Hi,

On Sunday 29 June 2003 01:00, Bob Parnes wrote:
> I did not read your post carefully enough and thought that I had to make
> the call to paintCell. However, it is confusing, because now I do not
> understand the purpose of the arguments beyond the row and column.

The other args specify if the cell is selected (and therefore should be drawn 
in the selected state) and which colours should be used etc.

> Anyway, I did manage to successfully draw an example, so long as the
> code was in the paintCell implementation.

That is correct.

> But I could not write 
> to the table at a later time.

* BobTable stores the contents of the cells somewhere. (array of strings if 
the cells hold strings etc).

* paintCell() looks up the contents of the cell (i.e. grab it's string 
contents) and draws the string on the QPainter object.

* BobTable has a method for changing a cell's contents (i.e. 
setStuff(row,col,newstring) )

* setStuff() modifies the internal array of strings (cell contents) and then 
calls QTable's updateCell(row,col). This tells Qt to repaint (redraw) that 
cell.

* When Qt is ready. Qt will call paintCell() for any cells that need 
repainting.

For a C++ example of how to do this kind of thing look at Guarddog's 
checktablelistitem.cpp file:

http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/

cheers,

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