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alphanumeric
alphanumeric

Reputation: 19329

How to control appearance of QTableWidget header

How to change QTableWidget header's font and its content margin and spacing? I would like to make the font for "Column 0", "Column 1" smaller and have no spacing between the name of the columns and the header edge.

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from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
app = QtGui.QApplication([])

columns = ['Column 0', 'Column 1', 'Column 2']
items = [['Row%s Col%s'%(row,col) for col in range(len(columns))] for row in range(100)]

view = QtGui.QTableWidget()
view.setColumnCount(len(columns))
view.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(columns)
view.setRowCount(len(items))   
for row, item in enumerate(items):
    for col, column_name in enumerate(item):
        item = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem("%s"%column_name)
        view.setItem(row, col, item)            
    view.setRowHeight(row, 16)

view.show()
app.exec_()

Upvotes: 2

Views: 11264

Answers (2)

dterpas
dterpas

Reputation: 161

I cannot find a way to erase the margins but i can suggest a temporary workaround. You can try to resizeColumnsToContents() before you fill the table with items

For the fonts you can try to do the next

afont = PyQt4.QtGui.QFont()
afont.setFamily("Arial Black")
afont.setPointSize(11)
atable.horizontalHeaderItem(0).setFont(afont)

If you want to see more families, you can always look at the available ones from QtDesigner.

The header items are nothing more than QTableWidgetItems. So all you have to do is get access to them and treat them as any QTableWidgetItem

The answear is almost same with the previous one though.

Upvotes: 5

Diego
Diego

Reputation: 1282

You can change the fontsize with:

item = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem()
font = QtGui.QFont()
font.setPointSize(14)
item.setFont(font)

I am not sure how to change margin and spacing. I can update this answer if I find out. I suggest using QTDesigner to deal with the layout.

Edit: In QtDesigner you can change the horizontal and vertical header size with the options: horizontalHeaderDefaultSectionSize and verticalHeaderDefaultSectionSize as well as the header font by doble clicking on it and selecting the font you want in the properties. QtDesigner

Upvotes: 4

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