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Harri Porten | 19 Dec 2011 21:47
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Re: [Qt4-feedback] QTableView and QTableWidget performance

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Carl Schumann wrote:

> I am working on an application for which a QTableWidget or QTableView
> would be the obvious to me choice.   Unfortunately, I get sluggish
> behavior.   I took a look at KOffice's spreadsheet program, kspread.
> It also has a need for a similar user interface and its performance on
> my systems is acceptable.   When I dig into the kpsread code it appears
> they are not using the QTableWidget or QTableView for the sheets in the
> workbook, but instead using lower level Qt to manage the sheet user
> interface.
>
> Am I correct that KOffice does not QTableWidget/View for the sheets
> UI?   Was this done for performance reasons?

The main reason is an historic one: KSpread started in KDE 1 times which 
predates the Qt 2 QTable class and particularly the Qt 4 item view 
classes. Apart from the required porting effort performance (and 
customization possibilities) might be reasons but even then, the QTable* 
classes aren't necessarily unsuitable for bigger amounts of data.

Note there is a difference between QTableWidget and QTableView. And even 
for the latter it plays a role how your model performs. Can you see the 
sluggishness with QTableView and a trivial QAbstractItemModel 
implementation that serves data in a leight-weight manner?

Harri.
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Carl Schumann | 19 Dec 2011 20:28
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QTableView and QTableWidget performance

Hi,

I am working on an application for which a QTableWidget or QTableView 
would be the obvious to me choice.   Unfortunately, I get sluggish 
behavior.   I took a look at KOffice's spreadsheet program, kspread.   
It also has a need for a similar user interface and its performance on 
my systems is acceptable.   When I dig into the kpsread code it appears 
they are not using the QTableWidget or QTableView for the sheets in the 
workbook, but instead using lower level Qt to manage the sheet user 
interface.

Am I correct that KOffice does not QTableWidget/View for the sheets 
UI?   Was this done for performance reasons?

Any insight would be appreciated please.  Thanks for any help.

Sincerely,
Carl Schumann

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