model/view design advice appreciated

[anda_skoa]

I guess the question is why you want to return a file through data().

Does the code that reacts to your selection changes not have access to your model type? I.e. you can't do something like

m_model->fileForModelIndex(modelIndex);

m_model->fileForModelIndex(modelIndex);

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode 

because you don't have access to m_model as a pointer of your model type?

And you also don't have access to the actual data, as in you can't do

QString filename = modelIndex.data(MyRoles::FilenameRole);
... m_zipFile->file(filename);

QString filename = modelIndex.data(MyRoles::FilenameRole);
... m_zipFile->file(filename);

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode 

because there is no mappable identifier?

Cheers,
_