QTableWidget: smaller text when it doesn't fit it a column

cidadao

Hey guys,

When text doesn't fit in a column it automatically gets smaller and three dots are appended at the end. Like this:
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Now I would like to understand why the text actually gets smaller and how can I control how small (or not) it gets.
Also, as you can see on the image, since it gets smaller it ends up not using the whole width of that column which makes no sense at all.

VRonin

~~I see no reason (looking in QCommonStylePrivate::viewItemDrawText) why it should get smaller, it might be a bug in your platform's style.~~

EDIT

the font getting smaller is a reported bug. tableWidget->setFont(QApplication::font()); seams to be enough to fix it

To get rid of eliding altogether just subclass QStyledItemDelegate and reimplement paint like:

#include <QStyledItemDelegate>
class NoElideDelegate : public QStyledItemDelegate{
Q_OBJECT
Q_DISABLE_COPY(NoElideDelegate)
public:
explicit NoElideDelegate(Qobject* parent = Q_NULLPTR):QStyledItemDelegate(parent){}
virtual void paint(QPainter *painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem &option, const QModelIndex &index) const Q_DECL_OVERRIDE
{
    Q_ASSERT(index.isValid());

    QStyleOptionViewItem opt = option;
    initStyleOption(&opt, index);

    //This is the change that prevents elision
    opt.textElideMode = Qt::ElideNone;

    const QWidget *widget = option.widget;
    QStyle *style = widget ? widget->style() : QApplication::style();
    style->drawControl(QStyle::CE_ItemViewItem, &opt, painter, widget);
}
};

and then use it like
tableWidget->setItemDelegate(new NoElideDelegate(tableWidget));

cidadao

Oh great! That indeed solves the problem. Thanks @VRonin !