Aligning icons in custom columns

dunhill · 02-27-2025, 03:42 PM

Sometimes we create custom columns with icons without text.
I've been checking and there is no way to align these icons and reducing the width of the column limits it to three characters. Could there be a possibility in the future to be able to align icons like text alignment?

BetterRed · 02-27-2025, 04:08 PM

How about a screen shot

Single icon or composite (multi) icons? If multi use a transparent icon as padding.

Also try this, shrink the column, then make use of the Save and Restore actions in the Layout actions tool.

BR

dunhill · 02-28-2025, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

How about a screen shot

A picture is worth a thousand words, you are right here the image

kovidgoyal · 02-28-2025, 12:06 PM

No there isn't. Qt doesnt offer the ability in its delegates and its not worth the effort to implement custom rendering, at least for me.

BetterRed · 02-28-2025, 03:29 PM

I would change the column Header names to MS and B2,and then create corresponding virtual columns (Column built from other columns) with long header names and simple templates e.g. "Mis Comentarios" with Template {lookup name for MS} that I'd use in Book Details. Example:

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In the Book list the CL column is represented as a checklist icon, behind it is a link to a Onenote page, the link label is what I see in Book details and what I 'click' to open the checklist.

BR

02-27-2025, 03:42 PM	#1
dunhill Guru Posts: 893 Karma: 810834 Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Device: moon+ reader, kindle paperwhite	Aligning icons in custom columns Sometimes we create custom columns with icons without text. I've been checking and there is no way to align these icons and reducing the width of the column limits it to three characters. Could there be a possibility in the future to be able to align icons like text alignment?

02-28-2025, 03:29 PM	#5
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,725 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	I would change the column Header names to MS and B2,and then create corresponding virtual columns (Column built from other columns) with long header names and simple templates e.g. "Mis Comentarios" with Template {lookup name for MS} that I'd use in Book Details. Example: In the Book list the CL column is represented as a checklist icon, behind it is a link to a Onenote page, the link label is what I see in Book details and what I 'click' to open the checklist. BR

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02-27-2025, 04:08 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,725 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	How about a screen shot Single icon or composite (multi) icons? If multi use a transparent icon as padding. Also try this, shrink the column, then make use of the Save and Restore actions in the Layout actions tool. BR

02-28-2025, 12:06 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,355 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No there isn't. Qt doesnt offer the ability in its delegates and its not worth the effort to implement custom rendering, at least for me.