[Interest] Help with Model / View Programming (FilterProxyModel) -- sorry complex question!!

[h]

Hi,
I have a QT project I am developing on OpenSUSE 12.3, using QT 5.1 (64
bit)
I am using the QT Model /View, currently using table views. 

My raw data in my model (subclass of QAbstractTableModel) is a linked
list of pointers. Each item in the list maps to a row in the view and
there are a fixed number of columns. The view supports editing.

Currently I have a QSortFilterProxyModel which I use to both filter and
sort the data in the views. 

This is all functioning well.


I want to introduce a new table view where the number of rows and
columns is related to groups of data, not to individual values in my
linked list.

The basic class structure will look like this:

	myQAbstractTableModel
        	|
	myQSortFilterProxyModel
        ________|____________
        |                   |
     myView1             myView2


where the 2 different views have different ways of calculating the
number of rows, number of columns and the data in them.

Currently myQAbstractTableModel calculates the number of rows and
columns and data for myView1, but not for myView2.

To calculate the number of columns in myView2 I need more information
than the result of myQSortFilterProxyModel::filterAcceptsRow (yes, the
number of columns in the view is dependant on the result from which
data items are being displayed.  Am I correct in assuming that the row
in this function refers to a "row" or tuple of data in the model, not a
row in the final view?

To be able to calculate the data to display (and edit) and the numbers
of rows and columns I think I need to override the int
myQAbstractTableModel::columnCount( const QModelIndex & parent ) etc
functions in myQSortFilterProxyModel so that I know what data has been
filtered out.  I also need to know what type of view the data is being
supplied to.

An alternative would be for me to subclass myQSortFilterProxyModel once
for each view type.  This way at least I do not need to know which view
type is requesting the data.

Either way, because I need to calculate using several fields in the raw
data I think I ant to hold a list of pointers, similar to the one in
myQAbstractTableModel, but with the filter applied.  With this list, I
want some way of ensuring that when data is added or removed from
myQAbstractTableModel, or the filter is changed that I can update the
pointer list in this derived class.

Does this make sense?

Am I correct in thinking that I should create different model classes,
specific to different view classes?

Is there an easy way to pass raw data pointers from
myQAbstractTableModel, through the filter to a new "filtered list" and
then ensure it remains synchronised?


Any help or further questions, greatly appreciated.

H