ActiveFocus with TextEdit

[volcano]

The treeview has an editable delegate. So when I'm editing an item on the treeview and click an item in the listview, I would like the item which is in edit mode to loose focus.

I meant I would like to change the edit mode to non-edit mode, if a user clicks on any other item on the qml page.

Let me explain the scenario, I have buttons, a treeview and listview in the same screen. When I enable the item to be edited and start editing the item in the treeview by setting activeFocus, so that the keyboard key strokes are accepted by the textedit.

Now if I click on some other button on the screen or any item in the listview without setting the activeFocus on the item I just clicked, the activeFocus of the item in the treeview isn't lost, this activeFocus loss is used to set the text and change the edit mode to non-edit mode.

So currently i'm setting activeFocus explicitly on the item I clicked(i.e. button or item in the listview) other than the treeview item to disable the activeFocus on the treeview item.

Is there a better way to shift activeFocus from the treeview item rather than configuring activeFocus on any other item which is clicked?

[anda_skoa]

I think I understand better now.

- when click a button or a ListView entry, you want to stop editing mode on the tree view
- you currently do that by tracking activeFocus in the tree view delegate

What about this
- add a method to your tree model that resets all "edit enabled" values
- call that method when you want to stop editing
- ignore anything focus related in QML

I.e. instead of calling forceActiveFocus() in the list view delegate's mouse area you would then do something like

treemodel.stopEditing()

treemodel.stopEditing()

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Cheers,
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[volcano]

Thanks anda_skoa for the suggestions..

But then for every new item added I have to ensure that the method is called.

Can you suggest if there exist another way to do so?

[anda_skoa]

Difficult.

What you could try is a MouseArea that fills the whole window, sits below the tree view but above everything else.
When it is clicked, it calls the reset method.
It would also need to set propagateComposedEvents otherwise you can't click on anything below it.

Cheers,
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[volcano]

Thanks anda_skoa.

Will try out your suggestion.