TablePainter is a simple class for qt-based applications that can print all kinds of tables inherited from QAbstractItemModel such QSqlTableModel, QSqlQueryModel, QTableWidget (using QTableWidget::model() method) or your custom table model. TablePainter works using QPrinter class.

• border style
• table margins
• cell margins
• column width
• column headers
• column headers font and color
• content font and color
• printing of standart elements on each page containing table (page number, border, service information etc.)
• maximum row height

The simplest usage may look like:

QPrinter printer
// printer setup
QPainter painter;
painter.begin(&printer);
TablePrinter tablePrinter(&painter, &printer);
QVector<int> columnStretch = QVector<int>() << 1 << 5 << 5 << 5;
tablePrinter.printTable(model, columnStretch);
painter.end();

Where model is a child of QAbstractItemModel you want to print. TablePrinter starts to print table from point (tablePrinter.leftblank, current_Y_position) so if you have some content above the table you need to set initial vertical position with

painter.translate(0, dy);

If wrong data was passed to TablePrinter then table will not be printed and printTable returns false. You can get an error description from TablePrinter::lastError() method.

if(!tablePrinter.printTable(model, columnStretch)) {
    qDebug() << tablePrinter.lastError();
}

If you need to print some data on each page, like page numbers, you need to create new class inherited from PagePrepare and reimplement preparePage(QPainter *painter) function.

You can find two examples of TablePrinter usage (one of which demonstrates applying of all TablePrinter settings but looks pretty wierd) in /example catalog.

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