QListView is asking the model for data but not displaying it.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Can you show your model implementation ?

[Stokestack]

@SGaist Sure. Well, any part that's relevant to the listview. It's a pretty big class; because this listview is only to provide a display of detected Bluetooth devices, I've made my Bluetooth-finder class the model as well.

// Methods to support QAbstractListModel

int DeviceFinder::rowCount(const QModelIndex& parent) const
{
	return static_cast<int>(m_foundDevices.size());
}


QVariant DeviceFinder::data(const QModelIndex& index, int role) const
{
	shared_ptr<BTDevice> pThisDevice = m_foundDevices.at(static_cast<unsigned long int>(index.row()));
	qDebug() << "DeviceFinder::data returning " << pThisDevice->getUUID() << " for row " << index.row();
	return pThisDevice->getUUID();
}

The debug output shows I'm getting legit strings.

[J.Hilk]

@Stokestack
I'm sorry, I don't know why, but thought this to be in the QML sub forum.

My previous post relates to the QML ListView object. My bad.

But, I think the issue might be similar.
To display data in a ListView you need 3 things,

• A model
• A ListView
• A Delegate

In your op you mention point 1 and 2, what about the delegate, the object that is drawn inside your ListView and changes depending on the data in the model?
Did you touch that or is it the "default" one?

[Stokestack]

@J.Hilk Thanks. It must be the default one, because I haven't seen any mention of a delegate in the docs.

Interestingly, if I double-click in the top of the list area where items should be, the data model will be queried for the appropriate row...

[J.Hilk]

@Stokestack

take a look here for more information
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/modelview.html#3-4-delegates

and
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qabstractitemdelegate.html

[Christian Ehrlicher]

And you really must respect the given role to data() and not simply return getUUID() for all roles...

[Stokestack]

@J.Hilk Thanks. I don't think it's a delegate problem. I've done demos from an instructional book as well, and no delegates were used for this kind of listview.

The clicking behavior is pretty telling; the items are in the list and they occupy space. They're just invisible.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@Stokestack said in QListView is asking the model for data but not displaying it.:

They're just invisible.

Did you read my post?

[Stokestack]

@Christian-Ehrlicher Yes, and I was just about to go and see if the listview was requesting decoration info or something and getting messed up by the strings...

[Christian Ehrlicher]

There is nothing to see - a view takes all it's information from the model. You simply return a value for every role instead just Qt::DisplayRole and wonder why it's displaying mess.

[Stokestack]

@Christian-Ehrlicher And sure enough that was it. Thanks Christian! I thought that, by default, it was just going to ask for strings for each "role" of each element, with the roles basically being equivalent to columns. I didn't really care if it showed the same string for every role, but if it got a string it didn't understand for the Decoration role... I see where that might disrupt the whole display.