How to create a custom calender widget
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There are numerous ways to make a calendar. And the simplest one , must be using the QCalendarWidget. However, we have limited control over the appearance of this widget.
Inheriting the QCalendarWidget can solve the issue. Here is the example class which explains a 'custom' calendar widget.
The cells, or the particular days are customized, and in order to do this , we need to take control over the protected function paintCell
Example:
class ourCalendarWidget : public QCalendarWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
ourCalendarWidget(QWidget* parent=0)
: QCalendarWidget(parent)
{
}
~ourCalendarWidget()
{
}
void ourCall(QDate date)
{
// here we set some conditions
update();
}
protected:
void paintCell(QPainter *painter, const QRect &rect, const QDate &date) const
{
if ( ) { // our conditions
// When the conditions are matched, passed QDate is drawn as we like.
painter->save();
painter->drawEllipse(rect); // here we draw n ellipse and the day—
painter->drawText(rec, Qt::TextSingleLine | Qt::AlignCenter, QString::number(date.day()));
painter->restore();
} else { // if our conditions are not matching, show the default way.
QCalendarWidget::paintCell(painter, rect, date);
}
}
};
That is all. Happy coding.