How can I index a QTableWidget by field name?

Question

I'm bug fixing someone else's Qt code, and this involves adding some extra columns to a QTableWidget. The current code indexes columns by their integer index. I would like to change this code so that it indexes by the header name. The code at the moment looks a bit like this:

// column 1 => Semantics
// column 2 => algorithm
// colunm 3 => ...
// ...

tableWidget->setItemDelegateForColumn(0, semanticsDelegate);
tableWidget->setItemDelegateForColumn(1, algorithmsDelegate);
tableWidget->setItemDelegateForColumn(2, specDelegate);

I would like to change it to something like this:

tableWidget->setItemDelegateForColumn(foo("Semantics"), semanticsDelegate);
tableWidget->setItemDelegateForColumn(foo("Algorithm"), algorithmsDelegate);
tableWidget->setItemDelegateForColumn(foo("..."), specDelegate);

Is this possible in Qt? (The QTableWidget columns are titled "Semantics", "Algorithm", etc) Or will I have to make an enum of table fields to handle this?

Answer 1

Item delegates are indexed by an int so, if you want to proceede in that way, you must to provide a function to map the column header to an unique integer. How to implement that foo() function is up to you - an enum and a QList< QPair<QString,enum_item> > should be good for you - . If your app will be translated, don't forget to use Qt's i18n facilities