Set default alignment for cells in QTableWidget

Question

I know you can set the alignment for each item using:

TableWidget->item(0,0)->setTextAlignment(Qt::AlignLeft);

However I would like t

Answer 1

I don't think there is an existing method for this, but here's two approaches that work:

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1.) Subclass QTableWidgetItem

MyTableWidgetItem::MyTableWidgetItem() :
    QTableWidgetItem()
{
    setTextAlignment( Qt::AlignLeft );
}

However, this is probably a bit overkill for just a single setting + you might want to overload all four constructors of QTableWidgetItem.

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2.) Another approach is using a factory instead of calling new:
Note: The linked article talks about unit testing, but there are many more advantages by doing that.

QTableWidgetItem* MyTableWidgetFactory::createTableWidgetItem( const QString& text ) const
{
    QTableWidgetItem* item = new QTableWidgetItem( text );
    item->setTextAlignment( Qt::AlignLeft );
    return item;
}

Then instead of

QTableWidgetItem* myItem = new QTableWidgetItem( "foo" );
item->setTextAlignment( Qt::AlignLeft );

you can do

QTableWidgetItem* myItem = myFactory->createTableWidgetItem( "foo" );

where myFactory is an object of MyTableWidgetFactory.