How to get access to row data in a QTableWidget

Goldglv

I have a comboBox where the user can select a team name.
Bears
Bengals
Broncos

I also have a hidden QTableWidget that contains 2 columns, first column is team name in like in comboBox, 2nd column is a position.

Bears 1
Bengals 2
Broncos 3

How do I get access to column 2 in QTableWidget? I will know the team name from the comboBox, if I use findItems, that just returns me a QList variable but I need to get column 2's values.

Maybe using a QTableWidget isn't the way to go but how do I get access to column 2?

Thank You.

jsulm

@Goldglv I'm not sure I understand your question. You can access cells using http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtablewidget.html#item

Goldglv

@jsulm but how do I know which row to access? Say for example user selected Bengals from combo, how do I know Bengals is row 2? I don't know of a find function to return me a row number.

jsulm

@Goldglv If you read the documentation you will find this: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtablewidget.html#findItems
It returns a QList<QTableWidgetItem>. If you read QTableWidgetItem documentation you will find http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtablewidgetitem.html#row

If this is not appropriate you can still iterate over items of the column using http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtablewidget.html#item and check each item until you find the one you need.

VRonin

QVariant getSecondColumn(const QString& searchTerm) const{
for (int i=0;i<tableWidget->model()->rowCount();++i){
if(tableWidget->model()->index(i,0).data().toString().compare(searchTerm /*,Qt::CaseInsensitive*/)==0)
return tableWidget->model()->index(i,1).data();
}
return QVariant()
}

My crusade against Q*Widget classes continues

Goldglv

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Goldglv

@VRonin Thank you for the example, this is very helpful. I'm still trying to learn the language....would you be able to show me an example using the #finditems and #row? Still having trouble figuring this out....

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VRonin

Unfortunately I never use the QStandardItem interface but rather the QAbstractItemModel one (as above) so I can't be of much help with the findrow and row methods.

@Goldglv said in How to get access to row data in a QTableWidget:

Still having trouble figuring this out....

I you tell us what you are struggling with I'll try to help however I can

jsulm

@Goldglv Did you read the documentation (I provided the links)?
First you call http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtablewidget.html#findItems to find the items you need.
It returns a list of QTableWidgetItem. A QTableWidgetItem has a method called row(): http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtablewidgetitem.html#row
It returns the row number in which the item is located.

QList<QTableWidgetItem *> items = ui->table->findItems("search string", Qt::MatchExactly);
for (QTableWidgetItem *item : items) {
    int row = item->row();
    // Do whatever you want to do
}

Saying "Still having trouble figuring this out" is not very helpful as we do not know what the problems are.

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