Adding custom widget to a Model-View table

[d_stranz]

Well, there's QAbstractItemView::setIndexWidget(). Unfortunately, these widgets aren't connected to the model in any way. However, I think if you derive a delegate of you own and override the QAbstractItemDelegate::paint() method, you can draw whatever you want in the cell and it will be visible whether it is being edited or not.

[srbs]

Thanks for the response. I'll try and work with the QAbstractItemDelegate -- I've never had to paint and existing QWidget (like the group of QPushButtons that I have) but I assume that I can just call its paint function or something along those lines.

I suppose I could also make the setItemWidget work, but that would imply that my model owns the majority of the data in the tree aside from one column so if it does work, it would be a sort of hybrid between the TreeView and the TreeWidget.

[d_stranz]

I assume that I can just call its paint function or something along those lines.

Well, no. You are inserting a delegate, not a widget, and since the paintEvent method for a QWidget is protected, you can't call the QPushButton's paintEvent() from an unrelated class. Look into QProxyStyle::drawControl() and QStyleOption::initFrom(). These are ways to draw something that looks like a widget but isn't (and are the way Qt draws actual widgets).