[Qt-interest] Row and Cell Properties of QTextTable

[Kenneth Beck]

I have been struggling to get grid lines and alternatingRowColors to 
turn on in a QTextTable, output to OpenOffice document. I started with 
the example program published in QtQuarterly recently. Lacking any 
global setting in QTextTableFormat or QTextBlockFormat for 
alternatingRowColors, I tried to do this in each cell, using 
QTextCharFormat.setBackground, but that did not seem to have any effect, 
not matter what color I set. Setting Font characteristics did have 
effect, not not background.

As for grids, there is no setting in the QTextCharFormat for grids, but 
there is for QTextBlockFormat, but that had no effect. I tried using 
setBackground there as well, but no effect. Also, is is not totally 
clear from documentation what constitutes a block. If I apply the 
BlockFormat to my cursor while building the table, will that set things 
for the whole table (as implied by description of a block)? Can I set 
format for just the row I'm in, or just the column?

I am probably missing something conceptually here, can someone 
straighten me out?

Qt ver 4.5.0, Visual Studio, with the integration 1.4.3 and Windows XP SP3.