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/*!
\example itemviews/spinboxdelegate
\title Spin Box Delegate Example
The Spin Box Delegate example shows how to create an editor for a custom delegate in
the model/view framework by reusing a standard Qt editor widget.
The model/view framework provides a standard delegate that is used by default
with the standard view classes. For most purposes, the selection of editor
widgets available through this delegate is sufficient for editing text, boolean
values, and other simple data types. However, for specific data types, it is
sometimes necessary to use a custom delegate to either display the data in a
specific way, or allow the user to edit it with a custom control.
\image spinboxdelegate-example.png
This concepts behind this example are covered in the
\l{Model/View Programming#Delegate Classes}{Delegate Classes} chapter
of the \l{Model/View Programming} overview.
\section1 SpinBoxDelegate Class Definition
The definition of the delegate is as follows:
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/delegate.h 0
The delegate class declares only those functions that are needed to
create an editor widget, display it at the correct location in a view,
and communicate with a model. Custom delegates can also provide their
own painting code by reimplementing the \c paintEvent() function.
\section1 SpinBoxDelegate Class Implementation
Since the delegate is stateless, the constructor only needs to
call the base class's constructor with the parent QObject as its
argument:
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/delegate.cpp 0
Since the delegate is a subclass of QItemDelegate, the data it retrieves
from the model is displayed in a default style, and we do not need to
provide a custom \c paintEvent().
The \c createEditor() function returns an editor widget, in this case a
spin box that restricts values from the model to integers from 0 to 100
inclusive.
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/delegate.cpp 1
We install an event filter on the spin box to ensure that it behaves in
a way that is consistent with other delegates. The implementation for
the event filter is provided by the base class.
The \c setEditorData() function reads data from the model, converts it
to an integer value, and writes it to the editor widget.
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/delegate.cpp 2
Since the view treats delegates as ordinary QWidget instances, we have
to use a static cast before we can set the value in the spin box.
The \c setModelData() function reads the contents of the spin box, and
writes it to the model.
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/delegate.cpp 3
We call \l{QSpinBox::interpretText()}{interpretText()} to make sure that
we obtain the most up-to-date value in the spin box.
The \c updateEditorGeometry() function updates the editor widget's
geometry using the information supplied in the style option. This is the
minimum that the delegate must do in this case.
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/delegate.cpp 4
More complex editor widgets may divide the rectangle available in
\c{option.rect} between different child widgets if required.
\section1 The Main Function
This example is written in a slightly different way to many of the
other examples supplied with Qt. To demonstrate the use of a custom
editor widget in a standard view, it is necessary to set up a model
containing some arbitrary data and a view to display it.
We set up the application in the normal way, construct a standard item
model to hold some data, set up a table view to use the data in the
model, and construct a custom delegate to use for editing:
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/main.cpp 0
The table view is informed about the delegate, and will use it to
display each of the items. Since the delegate is a subclass of
QItemDelegate, each cell in the table will be rendered using standard
painting operations.
We insert some arbitrary data into the model for demonstration purposes:
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/main.cpp 1
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/main.cpp 2
Finally, the table view is displayed with a window title, and we start
the application's event loop:
\snippet examples/itemviews/spinboxdelegate/main.cpp 3
Each of the cells in the table can now be edited in the usual way, but
the spin box ensures that the data returned to the model is always
constrained by the values allowed by the spin box delegate.
*/
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