Question

I am a student programmer and I am using Qt to build a GUI interface for work. I have a QTreeWidget that has a total of 8 Columns. The input that needs to be entered into each one of these columns is fairly small. In that regard, I was trying to find a way to re-size all of the columns to the least amount of space required. much like the action that is performed when you click on the dividers. I have looked over several websites and the Qt documentation and haven’t found a solution. After looking over the documentation it seems that there are a bunch of ways to do this but I cant get one to work. I am beginning to think that I need to enable/disable something somewhere. It’s as if the changes I write in to my build function (This function clears the table; Reads data from my vector, displays certain data in the table, and then is suppose to re-size the headers/columns to just enough size to fit the contents of the column) are not even applied. I have tried the following with no changes:

        ui->treeWidgetInjections->setColumnWidth(i, minimumWidth());
        ui->treeWidgetInjections->resizeColumnToContents(i);
        ui->treeWidgetInjections->header()->ResizeToContents;
        ui->treeWidgetInjections->header()->resizeSection(i, minimumWidth());

All of these are in the end of of my build Function (unrelated info removed):

ui->treeWidgetInjections->clear();
    for (int i=0; i < qTreeInjectionData.size(); i++)
        {
            //fill Qtree with items;
            //fill QTree items with data;
            //re size function here;
        }

Please only leave productive feedback as I am only interested in learning and overcoming this challenge. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This minimal example works for me:

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);

    QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout(centralWidget());
    QTreeWidget *tree = new QTreeWidget(this);
    layout->addWidget(tree);

    tree->setColumnCount(3);

    QStringList first, second, third;
    first  << "xxxxxxxxx"      << "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"     << "xxxxxxxx";
    second << "xxxxx"          << "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" << "xxxxx";
    third  << "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" << "xxxxxxxxxx"        << "xxxxxxxx";

    tree->insertTopLevelItem(0, new QTreeWidgetItem(first));
    tree->insertTopLevelItem(0, new QTreeWidgetItem(second));
    tree->insertTopLevelItem(0, new QTreeWidgetItem(third));

    for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
        tree->resizeColumnToContents(i);
}

All you need to do is call the resizeColumnToContents() method once for every column after you populate the view. Let me know if the problem persists.