QTableView - selected item colors

[sherbs]

Hi Folks...

I have a QTableView that I populate with data from a model. The model specifies some foreground/background coloring for a given cell in the table based on the content of the cell...

What I cannot figure out how to do is control the coloring of items/rows when they are selected. All coloring that I assign using Qt::ForegroundRole and Qt::BackgroundRole are ignored if the item is selected...

Are there comparable tags for selected item foreground/background role? I did look into using stylesheets for manipulating selected item colors but they don't seem to be sensitive to the content of a cell.

Thanks for any pointers in the right direction...

-G

[Lykurg]

the selection color is defined by the palette of the view. See QPalette::Highlight and QPalette::HighlightText

[sherbs]

Thanks Lykurg...

But, what I'm still not quite understanding is how I would actually use that...

Let's say, for instance, I am setting a row of text in my table view to have a Qt::ForegroundRole of "red" due to some condition in the underlying model... Let's say the remaining rows in the table default to "black".

When the user selects a given row, am I supposed to then manipulate the palette for the table?

If that is the right way, at which point would I attempt to do this? When the selection model indicates that the selection has changed? Or on the QTableView click() event that would preceed it?

[Lykurg]

The palette of the view is a permanent setting. So set the colors when you define your view. The selection color is used for all items regardless on the foregroundrole. If you need more specific color settings, you have to use a delegate where you could manipulate the used colors.

QPalette p = yourView->palette();
//set colors
yourView->setPalette(p);

QPalette p = yourView->palette();
//set colors
yourView->setPalette(p);

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[sherbs]

That is what I was afraid of!

vielen dank!