TreeView QML Type

Provides a tree view to display data from a QAbstractItemModel. More...

• List of all members, including inherited members

Signals

• collapsed(row)
• expanded(row)

Methods

• point cellAtIndex(modelIndex)
• collapse(row)
• int columnAtIndex(modelIndex)
• int depth(row)
• expand(row)
• bool isExpanded(row)
• QModelIndex modelIndex(point cell)
• QModelIndex modelIndex(row, column)
• int rowAtIndex(modelIndex)
• toggleExpanded(row)

Detailed Description

A TreeView has a model that defines the data to be displayed, and a delegate that defines how the data should be displayed.

TreeView inherits TableView. This means that even if the model has a parent-child tree structure, TreeView is internally using a proxy model that converts that structure into a flat table model that can be rendered by TableView. Each node in the tree ends up occupying one row in the table, where the first column renders the tree itself. By indenting each delegate item in that column according to its parent-child depth in the model, it will end up looking like a tree, even if it's technically still just a flat list of items.

To allow for maximum flexibility, TreeView itself will not position the delegate items into a tree structure. This burden is placed on the delegate. Qt Quick Controls offers a ready-made TreeViewDelegate that can be used for this, which has the advantage that it works out-of-the-box and renders a tree which follows the style of the platform where the application runs.

Even if TreeViewDelegate is customizable, there might be situations where you want to render the tree in a different way, or ensure that the delegate ends up as minimal as possible, perhaps for performance reasons. Creating your own delegate from scratch is easy, since TreeView offers a set of properties that can be used to position and render each node in the tree correctly.

An example of a custom delegate is shown below:

import QtQuick

Window {
    width: 600
    height: 400
    visible: true

    TreeView {
        anchors.fill: parent
        // The model needs to be a QAbstractItemModel
        // model: yourTreeModel

        delegate: Item {
            id: treeDelegate

            implicitWidth: padding + label.x + label.implicitWidth + padding
            implicitHeight: label.implicitHeight * 1.5

            readonly property real indent: 20
            readonly property real padding: 5

            // Assigned to by TreeView:
            required property TreeView treeView
            required property bool isTreeNode
            required property bool expanded
            required property int hasChildren
            required property int depth

            TapHandler {
                onTapped: treeView.toggleExpanded(row)
            }

            Text {
                id: indicator
                visible: treeDelegate.isTreeNode && treeDelegate.hasChildren
                x: padding + (treeDelegate.depth * treeDelegate.indent)
                anchors.verticalCenter: label.verticalCenter
                text: "▸"
                rotation: treeDelegate.expanded ? 90 : 0
            }

            Text {
                id: label
                x: padding + (treeDelegate.isTreeNode ? (treeDelegate.depth + 1) * treeDelegate.indent : 0)
                width: treeDelegate.width - treeDelegate.padding - x
                clip: true
                text: model.display
            }
        }
    }
}

The properties that are marked as required will be filled in by TreeView, and are similar to attached properties. By marking them as required, the delegate indirectly informs TreeView that it should take responsibility for assigning them values. The following required properties can be added to a delegate:

• required property TreeView treeView - Points to the TreeView that contains the delegate item.
• required property bool isTreeNode - Is true if the delegate item represents a node in the tree. Only one column in the view will be used to draw the tree, and therefore, only delegate items in that column will have this property set to true. A node in the tree should typically be indented according to its depth, and show an indicator if hasChildren is true. Delegate items in other columns will have this property set to false, and will show data from the remaining columns in the model (and typically not be indented).
• required property bool expanded - Is true if the model item drawn by the delegate is expanded in the view.
• required property int hasChildren - Is true if the model item drawn by the delegate has children in the model.
• required property int depth - Contains the depth of the model item drawn by the delegate. The depth of a model item is the same as the number of ancestors it has in the model.

See also Required Properties.

Signal Documentation

Method Documentation

modelIndex(cell.y, cell.x)

if (isExpanded(row))
    collapse(row)
else
    expand(row)