[Development] Access lazy Models from within QML
Alan Alpert
416365416c at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 01:51:32 CET 2013
whoops, missed reply-all
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alan Alpert <416365416c at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Dominik Holland
> <dominik.holland at pelagicore.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i'm currently in a project where i try to access a lazy C++ model from
>> within QML.
>>
>> The basics are working well but when it comes to setting the
>> currentIndex it becomes a bit odd.
>>
>> If i implemented everything well the lazy model always reports the
>> element count it currently has loaded by rowCount(). If the List comes
>> to the end, it will call canFetchMore() and if true also fetchMore() to
>> get more elements.
>>
>> But when somebody tries to set the currentIndex to something which is
>> currently not loaded into the lazy model, the data will not be loaded
>> automatically and the Highlight set accordingly.
>>
>> I looked it up at the source code and the code of the QML Views are
>> always checking the currentIndex to be smaller than the model's count.
>> Because of this the View rejects the currentIndex instead of trying to
>> load the full content of the model to determine whether the index is
>> really out of bound.
>>
>> Some my question is, is this a Bug in QtDeclarative ? If so what do you
>> think should be the right behavior ? Loading all the content just to
>> check whether the index is in bound seems to me a bit too performance
>> consuming.
>
> This is not a bug, ListView does not currently support canFetchMore
> (which only claims to be used by QAbstractItemView, so the docs are
> accurate already). The behavior if it was supported seems simple: as
> you scroll near the end the scrollbar jumps, and if you request an
> index off the end it fetches more until it either reaches the index or
> can't fetch more. You should file a suggestion in JIRA, long-term I
> don't see why the QML views should not support this feature.
>
> For now, this means that you'll need to manage fetching more data from
> the model yourself. If you expose the functions to QML, it can be as
> simple as (inside your ListView): onCurrentIndexChanged: if
> (currentIndex > myModel.count * 0.9 && myModel.canFetchMore)
> myModel.fetchMore();
>
> --
> Alan Alpert
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