QItemEditorFactory

The QItemEditorFactory class provides widgets for editing item data in views and delegates. More

Inheritance diagram of PySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory

Synopsis

Functions

Virtual functions

Static functions

Detailed Description

When editing data in an item view, editors are created and displayed by a delegate. QStyledItemDelegate , which is the delegate by default installed on Qt’s item views, uses a QItemEditorFactory to create editors for it. A default unique instance provided by QItemEditorFactory is used by all item delegates. If you set a new default factory with setDefaultFactory() , the new factory will be used by existing and new delegates.

A factory keeps a collection of QItemEditorCreatorBase instances, which are specialized editors that produce editors for one particular QVariant data type (All Qt models store their data in QVariant s).

Standard Editing Widgets

The standard factory implementation provides editors for a variety of data types. These are created whenever a delegate needs to provide an editor for data supplied by a model. The following table shows the relationship between types and the standard editors provided.

Type

Editor Widget

bool

QComboBox

double

QDoubleSpinBox

int

QSpinBox

unsigned int

QDate

QDateEdit

QDateTime

QDateTimeEdit

QPixmap

QLabel

QString

QLineEdit

QTime

QTimeEdit

Additional editors can be registered with the registerEditor() function.

class PySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory

Constructs a new item editor factory.

PySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory.createEditor(userType, parent)
Parameters
Return type

PySide6.QtWidgets.QWidget

Creates an editor widget with the given parent for the specified userType of data, and returns it as a QWidget .

See also

registerEditor()

static PySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory.defaultFactory()
Return type

PySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory

Returns the default item editor factory.

PySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory.registerEditor(userType, creator)
Parameters

Registers an item editor creator specified by creator for the given userType of data.

Note

The factory takes ownership of the item editor creator and will destroy it if a new creator for the same type is registered later.

See also

createEditor()

static PySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory.setDefaultFactory(factory)
Parameters

factoryPySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory

Sets the default item editor factory to the given factory. Both new and existing delegates will use the new factory.

See also

defaultFactory()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QItemEditorFactory.valuePropertyName(userType)
Parameters

userType – int

Return type

PySide6.QtCore.QByteArray

Returns the property name used to access data for the given userType of data.