How do I show borders in a grid?

Parthe

Hi,

I have a window with the data set out in a QGridLayout with some cells in some rows spanning more than one cell in other rows, and I want to be able to display borders around the cells.

I understand that I there is no option in QGridLayout, it's just a layout manager and doesn't handle visible stuff, so how might I do this?

I've looked at QTableModel and QTableView, I know that they display cell border lines, but i cannot find a way of spanning table cells.

I did try using a QFrame inside the grid cells but cannot get it to actually display anything useful. Maybe this would work if I could work out how but so far nada.

This is an ASCII version of the display, if it displays OK:

|+-------------------------Vertical box 1-----------------------------------------------+|
||+------------------------- Horizontal box 1 -----------------------------------------+||
|||+----------------------- Vert Box 2  -------------------+|+-- Grid box ------------+|||
|||+----------------------- Horiz Box 2  -----------------+|||                        ||||
||||Tickt number: 000 | User: xxxxx | User ref: ref        |||Next action   | person  ||||
|||+------------------------------------------------------+|||Service       | type    ||||
||||-----------------------Text box------------------------|||Product       | prod    ||||
||||Subject: text text text text                           |||                        ||||
|||+-------------------------------------------------------+|+------------------------+|||
||+---------------------------------------------------------++------------------------+|||
|+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+||
|+-------------------------Desc box----------------------------------------------------+||
|| Description: text                                                                   |||
|| Text text text                                                                      |||
|| Text text text                                                                      |||
|+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+||
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I'm out of idea, do you have any suggestions?

mpergand

Hi @Parthe

In paintEvent of your window, you can draw whatever you want.

to retreive the geometry of cells use :
QRect QGridLayout::cellRect(int row, int column)

JoeCFD

@Parthe https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtableview.html#setSpan