qtmodel-view-controllerqmodelindexqabstractitemview

How to get list of visible QModelIndex in QAbstractItemView


Is there any way to get a list of currently visible items in QAbstractItemView? And, if it possible, to receive any notifications about changing of this list.

Upd: I'm asking exactly about QAbstractItemView or QTreeView with non-plain structure, not QTableView.

Upd2: I'm implementing tree view model with checkboxes. I want next behavior (same for checking/uncheking):

Check state are monitored/modified by external data source, so I need a mechanism to update all changed children/parents. dataChanged signal is not enough for me because it is very expansive to build a list of all changed QModelIndex for updating. And it is not necessary at all, because all fresh data will be picked from QAbstractItemModel::data.

I found next dirty hack to update all items: emit dataChanged( QModelIndex(), QModelIndex() ); but it's undocumented for invalid indexes.

So, I need a way to force all visible items redraw they content with fresh data.


Solution

  • I think that there are no cases where list of visible items is required. In case of correct model implementation, all items are updated automatically.

    Hard part of implementation — force children and parents to update. I wrote the following code:

    bool TreeModel::setData( const QModelIndex &index, const QVariant &value, int role )
        case Qt::CheckStateRole:
        {
            TreeItemList updateRangeList;  // Filled with items, in which all childred must be updated
            TreeItemList updateSingleList; // Filled with items, which must be updated
            item->setCheckState( value.toBool(), updateRangeList, updateSingleList ); // All magic there
            
            foreach ( TreeAbstractItem *i, updateRangeList )
            {
                const int nRows = i->rowCount();
                QModelIndex topLeft = indexForItem( i->m_childs[0] );
                QModelIndex bottomRight = indexForItem( i->m_childs[nRows - 1] );
                emit dataChanged( topLeft, bottomRight );
            }
            foreach ( TreeAbstractItem *i, updateSingleList )
            {
                QModelIndex updateIndex = indexForItem( i );
                emit dataChanged( updateIndex, updateIndex );
            }
        }