QListView v.s. QTreeView, QTableview, QDirModel [solved]

[DrDonut]

Hi all,

A program I am writing is supposed to display a list of files that are in use, using three columns (Name, Type and Options).

To do this I found the QListView class perfect, because I can simply add columns and items. But now it seems that this is no longer fact in QT 4.

Using Qt3Support, I managed to get this to work, but I want the code to be maintainable in the future, so I need something else.

In the QT examples, they use a number of different things like QTreeview, QTableView, QDirModel and stuff like that, but they all use them at the same time so I don't know what does what.

So can you tell me what I should use to do the same as the old QListView from QT3?

Thanks in advance
DrDonut

[ulmly]

Try to use QListWidget, or QTreeWidget.

[faldzip]

QListView has only 1 column but you can use QTreeView (where you can have many columns) with only top level items. It would look like "details" view in Windows Explorer.

[faldzip]

Or you can use QTreeWidget where you don't need a model, just adding items to QTreeWidget. See the attachment (it's QTreeWidget with 3 columns)

[DrDonut]

Okay thank you both.

Now I used QTreeView and QStandardItemModel and it works!

I will look into QTreeWidget for the sake of simplicity, but for now it works:D

So thanks!

DrDonut

[faldzip]

In my opinion, it's better to use view + model than widget, because you have all the benefits from Model/View architecture, mainly data and it's presentation are clearly divided - so your solution is now ok. But sometimes, when you have to show some simple data temporary in only one place and in one way or something like that :D then the problem is not worth of doing model for it and much faster way is to use widget like QTreeWidget.