Using A Qcompleter In A Qtableview With Qt And Python

I'm reading up on how to make my QAbstractTableModel editable, and it looks pretty straightforward. But how do I set up an editable cell to use a QCompleter? I take it somehow I ha

Solution 1:

Create a subclass of QStyledItemDelegate

All you need to do is reimplement the setEditorData function, check that the editor widget is a QLineEdit and then set the completer.

Please, excuse that I don't know Python but this is how it would be done in C++. Hopefully, translating to Python will be easy.

classMyDelegate : public QStyledItemDelegate{
     public:
         voidsetEditorData(QWidget *editor, QModelIndex const &index){
             
             // call the superclass' function so that the editor widget gets the correct data
             QStyledItemDelegate::setEditorData(editor, index);

             // Check that the editor passed in is a QLineEdit. 
             QLineEdit *lineEdit = qobject_cast<QLineEdit*>(editor);

             if (lineEdit != nullptr){

                 // add whatever completer is needed, making sure that the editor is the parent QObject so it gets deleted along with the editor
                 lineEdit.setComplete(newMyCompleter(editor));
             }
         }
}; 

Solution 2:

Per RobbieE's suggestion, I subclassed QStyledItemDelegate. But the correct place to apply the completer is when the editor is created, not setEditorData.

classCompleterDelegate(QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate):
    def__init__(self, parent=None, completerSetupFunction=None):
        super(CompleterDelegate, self).__init__(parent)
        self._completerSetupFunction = completerSetupFunction
    defcreateEditor(self, parent, option, index):
        editor = QtGui.QLineEdit(parent)
        self._completerSetupFunction(editor, index)
        return editor

and then I use a completerSetupFunction that basically looks like this:

def_completerSetupFunction(editor, index):
    print"completer setup: editor=%s, index=%s" % (editor, index)
    completer = QtGui.QCompleter(base_items, editor)
    completer.setCompletionColumn(0)
    completer.setCompletionRole(QtCore.Qt.EditRole)
    completer.setCaseSensitivity(QtCore.Qt.CaseInsensitive)
    try:    
        editor.setCompleter(completer)            
    except:
        pass

Here's a complete example as a github gist.