List display options, QListView, QListWidget, QStyledItemDelegate....

[psih128]

The QAbstractItemModel classes do not allow you to draw anything special, but they do simplify things A LOT when it comes to tree/list manipulations. So you could implement a QAbstractListModel for you application, since you need a list. Then you could implement a QAbstractItemDelegate to present the records in the list with custom widgets.

Read mode about model/view framework, and about delegation of item representation via custom widgets. There are plenty examples to cover this in Qt.

[dubstar_04]

Thanks for your reply.

I have read all the documentation over and over, so much that i am actually confused over how to impliment the features and functions I want.

You think I should use:

A Subclassed QAbstractListModel to hold the, QIcon, and 2 QStrings,
Then Subclass QStyledItemDelegate or QAbstractItemDelegate to draw the listitems to a QListView and react to user clicks?

The example I showed in the picture uses custom QWidgets to impletement the required functions but this seems a very heavy way to retrieve information,

1. Pass item index to a function
2. retrieve the widget name from the item index
3. findchild <QLabel * >"twitterName" or "Status";
4. retrieve the text from the label and pass it to a processing function to parse the urls and return them with the users name.

So if the data is stored in a model i should be able to used QStyledItemDelegate to retrieve the data using the item index?

Are there any performance issues / benefits with any particular method of implimentation?

Thanks,

Dubstar_04