Custom Table View Widget

VogelPapaFinn

Hey guys!

Im currently building a Bug Tracker just for fun. For that I need a custom styled QTableView. On the screenshot you can see what I want to do.
My problem is that I dont know how I achieve this. As far as I can see I cant style the QTableView that much to fit my needs. My idea was to create the header manually (the grey bar with first name, last name etc.) and then use a QScrollArea with a custom build widget to represent the data.
Is there a better way to do this? I need to use this custom TableView on multiple sites so a reusable widget/code would be really nice^^

Thanks guys!

Im using QT Widgets and C++!

SGaist

Hi,

I see three possibilities:

Custom QStyle or a QProxyStyle
Custom QHeaderView with paintEvent re-implemented
Qt Stylesheet system

There's no particular order of preferences.

VogelPapaFinn

@SGaist
1 - So I create a new "app style" which defines how the TableView gets drawn? So I work with e.g. a Painter and other stuff related to drawing/displaying things?

2 - Im replacing the QTableView header with a custom one which gets styled via stylesheet? And the TableView itself is redesigned via overwritting how it gets drawn/displayed?

3 - I tried that but I only had very limited options to style the TableView. Or what exactly do you mean with that?

Never worked with any of these (except stylesheet ofc) so I dont know them. Sorry for asking^^

SGaist

Not the table view, the QHeaderView.

For the styling, see KDAB's Say No To Qt Style Sheets.

VogelPapaFinn

@SGaist Never thought about these things. Seems like QStyle is by far the better choice. The only thing that is holding me back is the QT-Designer. Atm Im using VS22 with the Qt Tools. My problem is that I need to recompile and rerun the program everytime I change something small + I cant "preview" it in the Designer. Or am I wrong?
For me it looks like I shift more and more to bare C++ code until every small peace of ui stuff is coded. It makes .ui files more or less useless. You know what I mean?

SGaist

I see what you mean.

From memory, Designer allows to preview your design in different styles but I don't know how to make it use your own style beside the fact that you would need to build it with the same Qt version that was used to build designer.

VogelPapaFinn

@SGaist So its a needed sacrifice? Or am I missing something?

SGaist

Not necessarily, I currently just don't know how to make your custom style available to be used by Designer for preview.