I'm working with the QTableWidget
component in PyQt4 and I can't seem to get columns to size correctly, according to their respective header lengths.
Here's what the table layout should look like (sans pipes, obviously):
Index | Long_Header | Longer_Header
1 | 102402 | 100
2 | 123123 | 2
3 | 454689 | 18
The code I'm working with looks something like this:
import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import QStringList, QString
from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QMainWindow, QSizePolicy
from PyQt4.QtGui import QTableWidget, QTableWidgetItem
def createTable():
table = QTableWidget(5, 3)
table.setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy.Expanding, QSizePolicy.Expanding)
headers = QStringList()
headers.append(QString("Index"))
headers.append(QString("Long_Header"))
headers.append(QString("Longer_Header"))
table.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(headers)
table.horizontalHeader().setStretchLastSection(True)
# ignore crappy names -- this is just an example :)
cell1 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("1"))
cell2 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("102402"))
cell3 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("100"))
cell4 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("2"))
cell5 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("123123"))
cell6 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("2"))
cell7 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("3"))
cell8 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("454689"))
cell9 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("18"))
table.setItem(0, 0, cell1)
table.setItem(0, 1, cell2)
table.setItem(0, 2, cell3)
table.setItem(1, 0, cell4)
table.setItem(1, 1, cell5)
table.setItem(1, 2, cell6)
table.setItem(2, 0, cell7)
table.setItem(2, 1, cell8)
table.setItem(2, 2, cell9)
return table
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
mainW = QMainWindow()
mainW.setMinimumWidth(300)
mainW.setCentralWidget(createTable())
mainW.show()
app.exec_()
When the application executes, the first column is quite wide while the other columns are somewhat compressed.
Is there a way to force the table to size according to the header widths, rather than the data itself? Better yet, is there a way to force each column width to be the maximum width of the data and header values?
Update: I've tried calling resizeColumnsToContents()
on the table, but the view becomes horribly mangled:
** Update2**: resizeColumnsToContents()
works just fine as long as it's called after all cells and headers have been inserted into the table.