Walk through QTableView rows using tab key

Question

I have a QTableView and i wanted the user to be able to select a whole row rather than individual cell. So i changed the selection behavior as shown below.

table->setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView::SelectRows)

But now when the tab key is clicked it still walks through individual cells rather than whole row. I want the user to be able to walk through each row rather individual cells.

Answer 1

You must inherit from QTableView class and override keyPressEvent(). For example:

#include <QTableView>
#include <QKeyEvent>

class CustomView : public QTableView
{
    Q_OBJECT

    // QWidget interface
protected:
    void keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *event) {
        switch(event->key()) {
        case Qt::Key_Tab: {
            if(currentIndex().row() != model()->rowCount())
                selectRow(currentIndex().row() + 1);
            break;
        }
        default: QTableView::keyPressEvent(event);
        }
    }

public:
    explicit CustomView(QWidget *parent = 0);
    ~CustomView(){}

signals:

public slots:

};