Cannot highlight or copy cells from table

[nathaneastwood]

Environment

• Operating System: 'Linux-4.4.0-1020-aws-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial'
• Python Version: Python 2.7.12
• How did you install Qgrid: pip
• Python packages: qgrid==1.0.5, notebook==5.5.0
• Google Chrome Version: 67.0.3396.87

Description of Issue

I cannot highlight or copy cells from the qgrid table even with grid_options={'enableTextSelectionOnCells': True} set.

Reproduction Steps

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import qgrid
>>> data = pd.DataFrame({'a': (1, 2, 3), 'b' : (4, 5, 6)})
>>> qgrid.show_grid(data, grid_options={'enableTextSelectionOnCells': True})

Then try to click and drag on the numbers in the table.

I am doing this within a notebook with the ultimate aim to use the notebook in dashboard form.

What steps have you taken to resolve this already?

I have tried to inspect the element to see if any options (e.g., enableTextSelectionOnCells) are not being set or being set incorrectly but I cannot see anything referencing any resemblance of this option. I've looked through previous issues but cannot find anything similar.

[TimShawver]

Thanks for the report...seems worth fixing, especially the copying part.

[vishma]

Hi, Is this issue has been fixed or is there any workaround to highlight cell contents?

[info-rchitect]

@vishma The enableTextSelectionOnCells option only works if the editable grid option is set unfortunately. My workaround was to set the editable grid option to True and setup this callback:

self.widgets['jobs_qgrid'].on('cell_edited', self._qgrid_edited)

def _qgrid_edited(self, event, qgrid_widget):
  if event['source'] == 'gui':
      qgrid_widget.edit_cell(event['index'], event['column'], event['old'])

This allows users to copy cell contents without changing the content of the cells.