get selected single cell in QTextTable?

mondayboy

hi,I know selectedTableCells() can get multiple cells in QTextTable, but how can I get selected single cell in QTextTable?

Bob64

@mondayboy I'm not familiar with this, but I took a look at the doc and it seems to be consistent with the behaviour you describe.

Could you use this in the single cell case:

QTextTableCell QTextTable::cellAt(const QTextCursor &cursor) const

?

JonB

@mondayboy
Your question is unclear. What Qt function is the selectedTableCells() which you say you know to use? If whatever it is returns all selected cells, and the user only selects a single cell, then that will be the first and only element in the returned list.

mondayboy

@JonB said in get selected single cell in QTextTable?:

selectedTableCells

hi, selectedTableCells() is a public funtion of QTextCursor Class. When my selection spans over table cells, it works, but when I just select one single cell, it returns (-1,-1,-1,-1), not row index and column index of the cell.

Bob64

@mondayboy I'm not familiar with this, but I took a look at the doc and it seems to be consistent with the behaviour you describe.

Could you use this in the single cell case:

QTextTableCell QTextTable::cellAt(const QTextCursor &cursor) const

?

JonB

@mondayboy
Thanks. Interesting. Googling qt selectedtablecells does not supply any hit for such a function, under QTextCursor or anywhere else. I rely on this to locate functions, it has let me down this time!

The documentation is a bit unclear, but it looks like it only returns anything if the selection spans over multiple table cells, which is a bit weird.

I see @Bob64 has posted a suggestion while I was typing, try that.

mondayboy

@Bob64 Thank you very much Bob! It works. In pyqt, I writed like this:

...
text_cursor = self.textCursor()
print(qtexttable.cellAt(text_cursor).row())
print(qtexttable.cellAt(text_cursor).column())
....

and it returned my wanted answer.

mondayboy

@JonB Yes, JonB, Bob64's answer is right. I get QTextTableCell using QTextTabl..cellAt(textCursor)， and get row and col index using .row() and .colunm() function.