[Qt-qml] Tree View In QML

[Stephen Kelly]

Ok.

I thought the op was talking about viewing a C++ QAbstractItemModel in
QML without having to write the QML element himself in C++.

If it's a ListModel with ListElements your workarounds might work, but
good luck implementing proper keyboard handling in your first idea and
good luck getting the features you want in the second idea -
highlighting, current index, current item focus item N etc. It would
take a long time to finish that thing.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:56 AM,  <petrus.lundqvist at nokia.com> wrote:
> "It's not possible"? :)
>
> You can do this in all manners of ways, such as just taking a ListView and making the delegates aware of what node in the tree they are rendering and adjusting the indentation based on that. When a node is expanded or collapsed you just update the list view model accordingly. If you want to keep it 100% QML and JS then the tree view model can e.g. be a JSON structure with a flag for each node that tells the TreeView whether the node is expanded or not.
>
> You can also do it on a lower level by creating a handful of items (essentially tree view delegates) that you place inside a Flickable and move around as the content is scrolled to simulate that there's really one for each node. Then just figure out which nodes of the tree are visible and update the items (tree view delegates) to reflect the correct content. Especially if each node in the tree is rendered with the same height (same delegate height) this is not too hard to do. The result is basically the same as with the ListView.
>
> In any case it's not a great idea to recursively create items for the entire tree (which it sounds like you were trying to do) since this will consume huge amounts of memory and put a very tight limit on the maximum size of tree that your component would be able to support.
>
> Peppe
>
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> Ravindra Mitke wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I want to create Tree View in Pure QML. I don't want to use QT code into
>> that.
>> Can you please suggest me the best way about doing this.
>>
>> Thanks in advance..:)
>>
>> *Thanks & Regards*
>> *Ravindra *
>
> It's not possible. I tried creating one by nesting an Item recursively to
> the depth of the tree, but the QML runtime sees that and stops you,
> complaining about infinite recursion.
>
> The options are
> - Write your own using c++
> - Use VisualDataModel and its drill down features.
>
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