> On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 6:35 Scott Bloom <sc...@towel42.com> wrote:
> Over the years this has come up to my a couple of times, and I wanted to get 
> the hive’s opinion
>
> The “easiest” example is the entry for an IP address, but it could be for any 
> string of numbers (or
> letters) where there are sub strings in one larger string
>
> For an IP address, you often see 4 smaller line edits.  But if there are 12 
> substrings, that becomes
> a pain to handle.
>
> Ideally Im thinking to present it in a similar fashion to the hex side of hex 
> editor.
>
> Where each “grouping” has a space between them, this of course means a custom 
> painter etc etc
>
> Any thoughts? Anyone seen a widget similar to what Im asking for?

My first thought is maybe a QTableView with a custom stylesheet? You could 
tweak the cell dividers
to both increase the horizontal width of them as well as removing the frame 
shadows to make it look
more like the hex editor concept without having to worry about the cursor 
getting into the space between the groupings?

Sean
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