On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:39:20PM +0200, Simon Edwards wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 29 June 2003 01:00, Bob Parnes wrote: > > I did not read your post carefully enough and thought that I had to make > > the call to paintCell. However, it is confusing, because now I do not > > understand the purpose of the arguments beyond the row and column. > > The other args specify if the cell is selected (and therefore should be drawn > in the selected state) and which colours should be used etc. > > > Anyway, I did manage to successfully draw an example, so long as the > > code was in the paintCell implementation. > > That is correct. > > > But I could not write > > to the table at a later time. > > * BobTable stores the contents of the cells somewhere. (array of strings if > the cells hold strings etc). > > * paintCell() looks up the contents of the cell (i.e. grab it's string > contents) and draws the string on the QPainter object. > > * BobTable has a method for changing a cell's contents (i.e. > setStuff(row,col,newstring) ) > > * setStuff() modifies the internal array of strings (cell contents) and then > calls QTable's updateCell(row,col). This tells Qt to repaint (redraw) that > cell. > > * When Qt is ready. Qt will call paintCell() for any cells that need > repainting. > > For a C++ example of how to do this kind of thing look at Guarddog's > checktablelistitem.cpp file: > > http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/ > > cheers, > > -- > Simon Edwards | Guarddog Firewall > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.simonzone.com/software/ > Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice." > > _______________________________________________ > PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
Thanks. I just downloaded guarddog and will look it up. -- Bob Parnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde