[Development] filtering using QSortFilterProxyModel

[h]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:05:17 +0200
Olivier Goffart <olivier at woboq.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 28 September 2013 18:41:38 h wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Firstly, I am off line a fair bit at the moment, so if you can
> > reply to this post it will be greatly appreciated, but I may be
> > slow to respond.
> > 
> > I am wanting to filter data from a QAbstractTableModel into a
> > QTableView through a QSortFilterProxyModel.  I have the app working
> > well, with sort implemented in my QSortFilterProxyModel subclass.
> > 
> > I have QDate data in my table and am wanting to display data only
> > from selected days, ranges of days or days of the week.
> > 
> > >From my reading of the documentation, QSortFilterProxyModel will
> > >filter
> > 
> > on a regex, but nothing else.  Is this correct?  I would like to
> > write a function returning a boolean that will either drop the
> > dataitem or pass it through.  I cannot see how to do this.
> > 
> > Can someone please advice on how to filter based on data types, not
> > just strings, which I believe is a condition of regex?
> > I would like to introduce a number of more complex filters than just
> > date, so a solution to something beyond regex rather than how to
> > express date as a regex would be appreciated.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This mailing list is there for discussions about contributions to Qt.
> For questions about Qt, there is the qt-interest mailinglist which
> you can use in the future.
> 
> Regarding your question, you can simply reimplement 
> QSortFilterProxyModel::filterAcceptsRow.  And don't forget to call 
> invalidateFilter when the filter changes.
> 
> 

Apologies for wrong list, and thankyou
H