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  • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

    Retrieve the width of the view and resize your sections to fill the whole view.

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    @Christian-Ehrlicher i thought about that but the witdh of my view is interactive. if i stretch it during the program it wont be fitting my cells anymore

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      @Christian-Ehrlicher i thought about that but the witdh of my view is interactive. if i stretch it during the program it wont be fitting my cells anymore

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      @aftalib Then you have to adjust your others accordingly after the resize.

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        my others cells ?
        i'm sorry i'm kind of a beginner i don't know how can i get my cells to resize along with my TableView

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          so i went through a lot of documentation this morning and apparently there is no way/or existing function allowing to do this, apart from SetStretchLastSection(true). do you think there is a way to set the size of the last section in an absolute way ?

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            What's wrong with QHeaderView::resizeSection()?

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            • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

              What's wrong with QHeaderView::resizeSection()?

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              @Christian-Ehrlicher i tried it but SetStretchLastSection overrides resizeSection() : no matter if i put interactive, stretch or fixed, the last section is still wider than the other ones when i stretch it .

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                Then don't use setStretchLastSection

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                • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                  Then don't use setStretchLastSection

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                  @Christian-Ehrlicher but if i do so my cells wont fill my QTableView

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                    @Christian-Ehrlicher but if i do so my cells wont fill my QTableView

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                    @aftalib said in how to set columnWidth correctly without having to use StretchMethods on a QTableView:

                    but if i do so my cells wont fill my QTableView

                    That's why I said 'Then you have to adjust your others accordingly after the resize.'

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                    • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                      @aftalib said in how to set columnWidth correctly without having to use StretchMethods on a QTableView:

                      but if i do so my cells wont fill my QTableView

                      That's why I said 'Then you have to adjust your others accordingly after the resize.'

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                      @Christian-Ehrlicher yes that's what i want to do but i dont really know how to do this with the available functions

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                        @aftalib said in how to set columnWidth correctly without having to use StretchMethods on a QTableView:

                        how to do this with the available functions

                        What are you missing? Getting the size of the view? How you resize a section was already answered:

                        What's wrong with QHeaderView::resizeSection()?

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                          here's what happens when i set resizeSection() to interactive : 4ac06f6a-ba3c-43e1-ae14-3ac1e510f6e8-image.png

                          i have worse or even results with Stretch or Fixed.

                          to get the size of the view i do : QRect rect2 = ui->tableView->frameGeometry();

                          is this correct ?

                          thank you for taking the time to answer me

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                            my solution was to set the maximum width of each of my tableviews by the number of the future columns plus the vertical header width, the problem is when i stretch the window the last tableview is going away on the right as you can see here : 69f2a6db-a6ef-4f67-932a-5b989e5885e0-image.png

                            and i have no explanation for this to happen. each of these tableviews have the exact same settings

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                              my solution was to set the maximum width of each of my tableviews by the number of the future columns plus the vertical header width, the problem is when i stretch the window the last tableview is going away on the right as you can see here : 69f2a6db-a6ef-4f67-932a-5b989e5885e0-image.png

                              and i have no explanation for this to happen. each of these tableviews have the exact same settings

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                              @aftalib if anyone knows where the issue from my previous screen comes from i'd be very happy to know, this is the only thing getting in my way..

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                                hello, posting as a last hope..

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                                  you can make fixed size , setcolumn size
                                  ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(4, 130);
                                  ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(3, 110);
                                  ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(2, 120);
                                  ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(1, 120);
                                  ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(0, 120);
                                  Are you using layout for tables in mainwindow?

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                                    you can make fixed size , setcolumn size
                                    ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(4, 130);
                                    ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(3, 110);
                                    ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(2, 120);
                                    ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(1, 120);
                                    ui.tableView_1->setColumnWidth(0, 120);
                                    Are you using layout for tables in mainwindow?

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                                    @n-2204 yes i am using layouts which i why i am afraid this wont work

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                                      here is what i did in order to set the size of my tableviews : 2c09aabf-08bd-4ecd-9164-5a902d7cb04d-image.png

                                      where nbOfAnt/2 is the number of elements that are going to be in my table view

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