[NewBe] A Contact List with QTreeView or Widget

[anda_skoa]

You probably won't have to touch QTreeView:aintEvent() unless you need to change how the tree visuals are painted.
You will need delegates to change how the cells/rows are rendered.

QTreeView is very likely the right approach when displaying a unknown amount of data in a tree like structure but you could also have a look at QColumnView which displays tree like data in a "drill-down" kind of fashion.

My suggestion would be to start with learning how to handle the QPainter API but by using simple QWidget painting first.
I.e. create a custom widget and implement paintEvent()

Once you have reach a state where you are satisfied with the visualization, you can easily take that into delegates and are then free to concentrate on the delegate and model/view specific things.

Cheers,
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[comuun]

Thank you for taking the time to read my long question
and thank you even more for giving such a wonderful answer!

Like you said I will concentrate on the QPainter API first
and move on to Delegates afterwards.

I finally how to approach the problem.
Thank you!!

[ChrisW67]

QColumnView... How, after all this time, have I nver noticed that before? Thanks anda_skoa.