Tablesort

[Megamouse]

I want my table to be always sorted alphabetically by its second column after it was sorted by another.

Like if i have 3 cells in column 2 that all have the same value I want those three rows to be sorted by its first column

not sorted:

hello   | 1
my      | 5
friends | 1

sorted by second column ('hello' and 'friends' are wrong):

hello   | 1
friends | 1
my      | 5

sorted by second column (preferred):

friends | 1
hello   | 1
my      | 5

[SGaist]

Hi,

You might be interested by the QxtSortFilterProxyModel class.

[Megamouse]

I don't want to use Qxt, I don't even know what that is

[Megamouse]

why isn't there a setter for "defaultSortColumn" or something like that....
And why can't I override QTableWidget::sortItems to do that myself....

[SGaist]

@Megamouse said in Tablesort:

I don't want to use Qxt, I don't even know what that is

Then before saying no, you could take the time to check. Note, that in this case, it won't help you, I mixed filtering and sorting so whatever...

@Megamouse said in Tablesort:

why isn't there a setter for "defaultSortColumn" or something like that....
And why can't I override QTableWidget::sortItems to do that myself....

Because for more advanced sorting and filtering there's QSortFilterProxyModel.

[Megamouse]

wow that's awfully complicated for a common feature like that

[Christian Ehrlicher]

QTableWidget is a convenience class - if you need more control over the data you have to use QTableView and a custom model.
For you problem it should be enough to derive from QTableWidgetItem and override
operator <(const QTableWidgetItem &o) const

[Megamouse]

thx. I forgot I already have that operator override, I'll adjust it accordingly.