preview the table

[GUEFFAZ ABDELKRIM]

[Liviu Lalescu]

Dear GUEFFAZ, and @Volker Dirr , and @Vangelis Karafillidis , and to everybody: it is a good suggestion. I'll think of it. But what do you think if we could simply list a small text matrix of X's and O's? Or we could use some nice UTF-8 special characters? Suggestions?

The thing is that drawing the complete table is not in my experience, is complicated, and the table might be too large.

[GUEFFAZ ABDELKRIM]

دائما الافكار تتحسن بالتطبيق . أكيد ستصل الى حل هذا الاقتراح .

[Volker Dirr]

Aa ASCII art? Sounds fine. The "only" problem is, that the characters must have the same width or a font with non-proportional letters.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Yes, art, but UTF, not ASCII. Maybe they have some nice colored Xs and 0s with same width. And also same frame lines.

[Volker Dirr]

Yes, UTF-8 characters of course. (But I never heard the term "UTF-ART". Other guys always call it only "ASCII-Art".)
I think that is a good variant.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Great! (Volker)

@Darren McDonald , @g.theodoroy , @gradgrind , maybe you have ideas/suggestions? Or other forum/FET users?

[Liviu Lalescu]

We might need to have two sets of symbols: without colors, and with colors, and this setting will be the one that the user chose when adding the constraints (or when modifying?).

[g.theodoroy]

You dont need to "invent wheel" once more !!!

You have data (D1H1.D2H1...)

You have ui in another form (QtableWidget)


Just conditionally show QtableWidget (only view - not edit)

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checkboxes           QtextWidget
                              QtextWidget
QListWidget          QtextWidget
QListWidget          QtextWidget
QListWidget          QtextWidget
QListWidget          QtextWidget
QListWidget
QListWidget         QtableWidget
QListWidget         QtableWidget
QListWidget         QtableWidget

Buttons Buttons Buttons Buttons
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[Liviu Lalescu]

You are right, George, but:

- that table needs to be shown scaled down, and I am not sure how to do that;

- the text of the constraint might be useful to be copy/pasted, like for instance if the user wants to print all time constraints and uses this trick: selects all constraints, Remove, and copy/paste that text.

[Volker Dirr]

✓ or ✔ and ✗ or .
☒ and ☐
● and ○
★ and ☆
...

maybe select able in the setting.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Great! I think the second (squares) is suitable for not available times and preferred times. For selection of slots, maybe the circles (are they the same size?). Or, do they have a square with a check box in it?

We might also need a horizontal line and a vertical one (for a big square around the whole table and to divide a day in the Mornings-Afternoons mode).

[Liviu Lalescu]

This is how it looks (attached screenshot):

How could we make the table more compact (there is too much space between the rows...)?

[Liviu Lalescu]

Hmm... not so easy if there are many days... we get a wraparound...

It is possible to deactivate the wraparound - would that be a solution? But note that all the text of the detailed description of the constraint will not wrap around anymore, so you might need to scroll.

[Volker Dirr]

TextEdit->setWordWrapMode(QTextOption::NoWrap);