Disallow copy/paste in QTableView in pyside

Question

I have QTableView that gets information from a QSqlQueryModel and displays it in real time. The thing is, QTableView allows the user to copy and paste the info from one of the fields.

    projectModel = QtSql.QSqlQueryModel()
    projectModel.setQuery("select * from queue",self.db)
    self.total_rows = projectModel.rowCount()
    projectModel.setHeaderData(0, QtCore.Qt.Horizontal, 'ID cola')
    projectModel.setHeaderData(1, QtCore.Qt.Horizontal, 'Código')

    self.projectView = QtGui.QTableView()
    self.projectView.setModel(projectModel)
    self.projectView.resizeColumnsToContents()
    self.projectView.horizontalHeader().setStretchLastSection(True)

How do I deny copying the content of QTableView and pasting it outside in a text editor, for example?

Answer 1

You can make the whole table read-only like this:

    self.projectView.setEditTriggers(QAbstractItemView.NoEditTriggers)

EDIT:

If you also want to prevent copying of cells, you will need to kill the relevant keyboard shortcuts. Below is some example code that does that:

from PySide import QtGui, QtCore

class Window(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, rows, columns):
        super(Window, self).__init__()
        self.table = QtGui.QTableView(self)
        model =  QtGui.QStandardItemModel(rows, columns, self.table)
        for row in range(rows):
            for column in range(columns):
                item = QtGui.QStandardItem('(%d, %d)' % (row, column))
                model.setItem(row, column, item)
        self.table.setModel(model)
        self.table.setEditTriggers(QtGui.QAbstractItemView.NoEditTriggers)
        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self)
        layout.addWidget(self.table)
        self.table.installEventFilter(self)

    def eventFilter(self, source, event):
        if (source is self.table and
            event.type() == QtCore.QEvent.KeyPress and
            event == QtGui.QKeySequence.Copy):
            return True
        return super(Window, self).eventFilter(source, event)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    import sys
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    window = Window(5, 5)
    window.setGeometry(600, 300, 600, 250)
    window.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())