Set better column widths in the dive list

This code seems rather crude to me. I'm sure this could be done better.

This also makes the column alignment work again.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qt-ui/mainwindow.cpp b/qt-ui/mainwindow.cpp
index 9901e4186..8bf03531f 100644
--- a/qt-ui/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/qt-ui/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 #include <QSortFilterProxyModel>
 #include <QSettings>
 #include <QCloseEvent>
+#include <QApplication>
+#include <QFontMetrics>
 
 #include "divelistview.h"
 #include "starwidget.h"
@@ -32,6 +34,38 @@ MainWindow::MainWindow() : ui(new Ui::MainWindow()),
 	sortModel->setSourceModel(model);
 	ui->ListWidget->setModel(sortModel);
 
+	/* figure out appropriate widths for the columns. The strings chosen
+	 * are somewhat random (but at least we're trying to allow them to be
+	 * localized so they are somewhat universal) */
+	QFontMetrics fm(QApplication::font());
+	int pixelsWide = fm.width(tr("Trip Wed, Mar 29, 2000 (100 dives)"));
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::DATE, pixelsWide);
+
+	/* all the columns that have usually up to four numbers plus maybe
+	 * a decimal separator */
+	pixelsWide = fm.width("000.0");
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::DEPTH, pixelsWide);
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::TEMPERATURE, pixelsWide);
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::TOTALWEIGHT, pixelsWide);
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::SAC, pixelsWide);
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::OTU, pixelsWide);
+
+	/* this one is likely dominated by the header (need extra pixels) */
+	pixelsWide = fm.width(tr("maxCNS")) + 10;
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::MAXCNS, pixelsWide);
+
+	/* the rest we try to cover with reasonable sample text again */
+	pixelsWide = fm.width("   123456");
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::NR, pixelsWide);
+	pixelsWide = fm.width("00:00:00");
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::DURATION, pixelsWide);
+	pixelsWide = fm.width(tr("twin HP119"));
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::CYLINDER, pixelsWide);
+	pixelsWide = fm.width("888888");
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::NITROX, pixelsWide);
+	pixelsWide = fm.width(tr("7mm wet, farmer johns and jacket"));
+	ui->ListWidget->setColumnWidth(TreeItemDT::SUIT, pixelsWide);
+
 	setWindowIcon(QIcon(":subsurface-icon"));
 	readSettings();
 }