Access delegate item properties from outside

[maxwell31]

I have a flickable GridView. In this GridView I have custom buttons. My custom buttons change their border color when they are pressed, and when they are released, the border color changes back to the original.

Now my problem: If I start a flick on a button, the border color is changing (which is OK). However, after the flick is done, the release event is stolen by the GridView, so the button color does not change back. I thought I will fix this by creating a function which is called inside onFlickEnded{}:

function resetButtonColorAfterFlick() {
    var i
    for(i=0; i<gridView.model.count;i++) {
        var myob =gridView.children[0].children[i]
        if(myob.children[0].state=="normal")
            myob.children[0].border.color="#646464"
    }
}

While this is working, I don't know how I am supposed to access the delegate properties here. The above solution with children cannot be how it is supposed to be done, or?

[Gojir4]

@maxwell31 Hi,

How do you make the border color changing ? Can we see the code of the delegate ?
In my opinion it's better to handle this in the code of the button instead of accessing to the delegate to change it's state.

Here is a simple code which work on my side. It uses the State mechanism:

//main.qml
import QtQuick 2.9
import QtQuick.Window 2.2

Window {
    visible: true
    width: 640
    height: 480
    title: qsTr("Hello World")


    GridView{
        anchors.fill: parent
        model: 50
        delegate: MyButton{
            text: "" + index
        }
    }
}

//MyButton.qml

Button {
    background: Rectangle{
        id: bg
        border.width: 1
        border.color: "blue"
    }

    states: [
        State {
            name: "pressed"
            PropertyChanges { target: bg; border.color: "red" }        }
    ]
    state: pressed ? "pressed" : ""
}