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column labels on table widgets [message #26196]

Thu, 09 August 2001 15:33

ronn
Messages: 123
Registered: April 1999

Senior Member

All,

Has anyone figured out if it is possible to put two rows in a table widget
column label? It would look something like this

-----------------------------------------
| NAME | AREA | MASS | TYPE |
| | CM^2 | KG | |
-----------------------------------------
| A2 | 12.0 | 5.3 | G2 |
-----------------------------------------

Thanks,
-Ronn

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Re: column labels on table widgets [message #26266 is a reply to message #26196]

Fri, 10 August 2001 14:56

Harvey Rarback
Messages: 24
Registered: September 1998

Junior Member

ronn kling wrote:

> Has anyone figured out if it is possible to put two rows in a table widget
> column label? It would look something like this
>
> -----------------------------------------
> | NAME | AREA | MASS | TYPE |
> | | CM^2 | KG | |
> -----------------------------------------
> | A2 | 12.0 | 5.3 | G2 |
> -----------------------------------------

I don't believe so. I have written a widget object which replaces much of the
functionality of the table widget but includes

- multiple rows of column labels
- different color backgrounds and foregrounds per cell
- different alignments per cell
- different fonts for the column labels and table body
- none of the weird sizing problems of the table widget

It uses a draw widget with separate pixmaps for each cell.

That's the good news. The bad news is that I wrote this object for my own needs
and so it is not really documented (yet).

I would be glad to give out the code as is, or if there is enough interest I
could make it available in a more easily usable form.

--Harvey

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