Suggestions/Ideas about a file browser

[jpn]

Not that I know. The only example of QDirModel usage provided with Qt is the Dir View example.
Neither does the QDirModel documentation provide much of example usage, but the common model/view programming concept applies here too..

[Lemming]

From my experience of implementing the full-scale file browser, QT documentation is sufficient to get things working if you're familiar with Model/View architecture. If not, you probably shold start with reading the Model/View tutorial that is supplied with QT.

BTW, there was a nice file browser example in QT3 solutions. Unfortunately it is not yet ported to QT4, causing a lot of troubles for those who need a file browser in their application.

[nupul]

The simple file browser provided by jpn is a great example..but it does not have the drop facility within the listview itself...(both, on the left as well as right col. of the splitter)...ummm how would you achieve this!!

Nupul

[Lemming]

You'll have to subclass from QListView and overload the dropEvent

//Enabling the drops for the list viewport
list->viewport()->setAcceptDrops( true );
 
void FileExplorerList::dropEvent( QDropEvent *event )
{
[INDENT]if ( event->mimeData()->hasUrls() )
{
[INDENT]
//Getting the dir model of the list
QDirModel *dirModel = qobject_cast<QDirModel*>( list->model() );
//Dropping the mime data
dirModel->dropMimeData( event->mimeData(), event->proposedAction(), parentIndex );
//Note: it's up to you to get the parent index for the drop operation[/INDENT]
}[/INDENT]}

//Enabling the drops for the list viewport
list->viewport()->setAcceptDrops( true );

void FileExplorerList::dropEvent( QDropEvent *event )
{
[INDENT]if ( event->mimeData()->hasUrls() )
{
[INDENT]
//Getting the dir model of the list
QDirModel *dirModel = qobject_cast<QDirModel*>( list->model() );
//Dropping the mime data
dirModel->dropMimeData( event->mimeData(), event->proposedAction(), parentIndex );
//Note: it's up to you to get the parent index for the drop operation[/INDENT]
}[/INDENT]}

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This should work fine. Actually, there is QDirModel::setReadOnly( bool ) method as well. I'm not sure about it, but setting it to on might possible enable the default drop functionality for the dir model.