QTableWidget Expand Columns to Fill With Last Column Fixed Width

Question

I'm attempting something that I thought would be simple, but just cannot find a way to do this. The supplied image demonstrates what I'm after. It's essentially just a QTableWidget with the following behaviour:

Fill the available space.
A fixed width column on the right.
The rest of the columns I'd like to be able to resize manually (so they'd have to stretch proportionally so that all space is filled).

Things I have tried:

Setting setStretchLastSection(True). This fills up the space, but you have no control over its width if this is set.
Overriding the resizeEvent and calculating and setting everything manually. This seems like a very messy way of doing things, which usually means there's a simpler way.

Is there a simple way of achieving this?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 03 '20 at 16:33

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You can always ResizeToContents all columns with self.my_table.verticalHeader().setSectionResizeMode(QHeaderView.ResizeToContents) and then apply your fixed width to the last one

answered Jan 03 '20 at 16:33

noEmbryo

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As you can see from the documentation [here](https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/PySide2/QtWidgets/QHeaderView.html#PySide2.QtWidgets.PySide2.QtWidgets.QHeaderView.ResizeMode) setting `QHeaderView.ResizeToContents` means that "The size cannot be changed by the user or programmatically." – Anti-Distinctlyminty Jan 04 '20 at 11:44

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '20 at 16:23

I managed to get something that works

self.myTable.horizontalHeader().setSectionResizeMode(0, QtWidgets.QHeaderView.Interactive)
self.myTable.horizontalHeader().setSectionResizeMode(1, QtWidgets.QHeaderView.Stretch)
self.myTable.horizontalHeader().setSectionResizeMode(2, QtWidgets.QHeaderView.Fixed)

The general rule is to set all of the headers to Interactive, the penultimate to Stretch, and final to Fixed.

QTableWidget Expand Columns to Fill With Last Column Fixed Width

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