Question

So I have a question very closely related to another question I’ve seen on here but when I tried posing my question there I got no responses, I’m hoping by asking this as a fresh question someone can help me out. Basically I want simply copy a portion of my table that I’ve created so that I can paste it to an excel file. Here’s what I have:

    QAbstractItemModel *abmodel = ui.tableview->model();
    QItemSelectionModel *model = ui.tableview->selectionModel();
    QModelIndexList list = model->selectionIndexes();
    qSort(list);
    QModelIndex index = list.first();
    for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)
{
    QModelIndex index = list.at(i);
    QString text = abmodel->data(index).toString();
    copy_table.append(text);

    if(index.row() != previous.row())
    {
        copy_table.append('\n');
    }
    else
    {
        copy_table.append('\t');
    }
    previous = index;
}

QClipboard *clipboard = QApplication::clipboard();
clipboard->setText(copy_table);

This will copy a column fine, but when I attempt to copy a row or say a 2×2 subtable the row index gets messed up, incorrectly assigning the row index for the values. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Well, already figured it out, sorry anyone that wasted their time and looked.

void TestCopyTable::on_pushButton_copy_clicked()
{
QAbstractItemModel *abmodel = ui.tableView->model();
QItemSelectionModel * model = ui.tableView->selectionModel();
QModelIndexList list = model->selectedIndexes();

qSort(list);

if(list.size() < 1)
    return;

QString copy_table;
QModelIndex last = list.last();
QModelIndex previous = list.first();

list.removeFirst();

for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)
{
    QVariant data = abmodel->data(previous);
    QString text = data.toString();

    QModelIndex index = list.at(i);
    copy_table.append(text);

    if(index.row() != previous.row())

    {
        copy_table.append('\n');
    }
    else
    {
        copy_table.append('\t');
    }
    previous = index;
}

copy_table.append(abmodel->data(list.last()).toString());
copy_table.append('\n');

QClipboard *clipboard = QApplication::clipboard();
clipboard->setText(copy_table);

}