QStyledItemDelegate¶
Synopsis¶
Functions¶
- def itemEditorFactory ()
- def setItemEditorFactory (factory)
Virtual functions¶
- def displayText (value, locale)
- def initStyleOption (option, index)
Detailed Description¶
The PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate class provides display and editing facilities for data items from a model.
When displaying data from models in Qt item views, e.g., a PySide.QtGui.QTableView , the individual items are drawn by a delegate. Also, when an item is edited, it provides an editor widget, which is placed on top of the item view while editing takes place. PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate is the default delegate for all Qt item views, and is installed upon them when they are created.
The PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate class is one of the Model/View Classes and is part of Qt’s model/view framework . The delegate allows the display and editing of items to be developed independently from the model and view.
The data of items in models are assigned an Qt.ItemDataRole ; each item can store a PySide.QtCore.QVariant for each role. PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate implements display and editing for the most common datatypes expected by users, including booleans, integers, and strings.
The data will be drawn differently depending on which role they have in the model. The following table describes the roles and the data types the delegate can handle for each of them. It is often sufficient to ensure that the model returns appropriate data for each of the roles to determine the appearance of items in views.
Role Accepted Types Qt.BackgroundRole PySide.QtGui.QBrush Qt.BackgroundColorRole PySide.QtGui.QColor (obsolete; use Qt.BackgroundRole instead) Qt.CheckStateRole Qt.CheckState Qt.DecorationRole PySide.QtGui.QIcon , PySide.QtGui.QPixmap , PySide.QtGui.QImage and PySide.QtGui.QColor Qt.DisplayRole PySide.QtCore.QString and types with a string representation Qt.EditRole See PySide.QtGui.QItemEditorFactory for details Qt.FontRole PySide.QtGui.QFont Qt.SizeHintRole PySide.QtCore.QSize Qt.TextAlignmentRole Qt.Alignment Qt.ForegroundRole PySide.QtGui.QBrush Qt.TextColorRole PySide.QtGui.QColor (obsolete; use Qt.ForegroundRole instead) Editors are created with a PySide.QtGui.QItemEditorFactory ; a default static instance provided by PySide.QtGui.QItemEditorFactory is installed on all item delegates. You can set a custom factory using PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.setItemEditorFactory() or set a new default factory with QItemEditorFactory.setDefaultFactory() . It is the data stored in the item model with the EditRole that is edited. See the PySide.QtGui.QItemEditorFactory class for a more high-level introduction to item editor factories. The Color Editor Factory example shows how to create custom editors with a factory.
Subclassing QStyledItemDelegate¶
If the delegate does not support painting of the data types you need or you want to customize the drawing of items, you need to subclass PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate , and reimplement PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.paint() and possibly PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.sizeHint() . The PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.paint() function is called individually for each item, and with PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.sizeHint() , you can specify the hint for each of them.
When reimplementing PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.paint() , one would typically handle the datatypes one would like to draw and use the superclass implementation for other types.
The painting of check box indicators are performed by the current style. The style also specifies the size and the bounding rectangles in which to draw the data for the different data roles. The bounding rectangle of the item itself is also calculated by the style. When drawing already supported datatypes, it is therefore a good idea to ask the style for these bounding rectangles. The PySide.QtGui.QStyle class description describes this in more detail.
If you wish to change any of the bounding rectangles calculated by the style or the painting of check box indicators, you can subclass PySide.QtGui.QStyle . Note, however, that the size of the items can also be affected by reimplementing PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.sizeHint() .
It is possible for a custom delegate to provide editors without the use of an editor item factory. In this case, the following virtual functions must be reimplemented:
- PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.createEditor() returns the widget used to change data from the model and can be reimplemented to customize editing behavior.
- PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.setEditorData() provides the widget with data to manipulate.
- PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.updateEditorGeometry() ensures that the editor is displayed correctly with respect to the item view.
- PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.setModelData() returns updated data to the model.
The Star Delegate example creates editors by reimplementing these methods.
QStyledItemDelegate vs. QItemDelegate¶
Since Qt 4.4, there are two delegate classes: PySide.QtGui.QItemDelegate and PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate . However, the default delegate is PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate . These two classes are independent alternatives to painting and providing editors for items in views. The difference between them is that PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate uses the current style to paint its items. We therefore recommend using PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate as the base class when implementing custom delegates or when working with Qt style sheets. The code required for either class should be equal unless the custom delegate needs to use the style for drawing.
If you wish to customize the painting of item views, you should implement a custom style. Please see the PySide.QtGui.QStyle class documentation for details.
See also
Delegate Classes PySide.QtGui.QItemDelegate PySide.QtGui.QAbstractItemDelegate PySide.QtGui.QStyle Spin Box Delegate Example Star Delegate Example Color Editor Factory Example
- class PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate([parent=None])¶
Parameters: parent – PySide.QtCore.QObject Constructs an item delegate with the given parent .
- PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.displayText(value, locale)¶
Parameters: - value – object
- locale – PySide.QtCore.QLocale
Return type: unicode
This function returns the string that the delegate will use to display the Qt.DisplayRole of the model in locale . value is the value of the Qt.DisplayRole provided by the model.
The default implementation uses the QLocale::toString to convert value into a PySide.QtCore.QString .
- PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.initStyleOption(option, index)¶
Parameters: - option – PySide.QtGui.QStyleOptionViewItem
- index – PySide.QtCore.QModelIndex
Initialize option with the values using the index index . This method is useful for subclasses when they need a PySide.QtGui.QStyleOptionViewItem , but don’t want to fill in all the information themselves. This function will check the version of the PySide.QtGui.QStyleOptionViewItem and fill in the additional values for a PySide.QtGui.QStyleOptionViewItemV2 , PySide.QtGui.QStyleOptionViewItemV3 and PySide.QtGui.QStyleOptionViewItemV4 .
See also
- PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.itemEditorFactory()¶
Return type: PySide.QtGui.QItemEditorFactory Returns the editor factory used by the item delegate. If no editor factory is set, the function will return null.
- PySide.QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate.setItemEditorFactory(factory)¶
Parameters: factory – PySide.QtGui.QItemEditorFactory Sets the editor factory to be used by the item delegate to be the factory specified. If no editor factory is set, the item delegate will use the default editor factory.
