Hi,
It seems I can go with the solution I described. I don't need the tree view to be focused, so I just removed the “focus rect” (if that is the name Qt people know ;)) by setting the focus policy of the tree to Qt.NoFocus. I draw the “cursor” then myself by giving a different backlog in QAbstractItemModel::data. That makes anyway sense since the cursor position is part of my domain model.

Thanks for help and inspiration!
Dan

@gabor53 If you can provide a complete example then I can see the issue first hand then as it seems like it should work, but it is hard to say without seeing it.

@Niltava Hello,

property int _index : 4

ListView {
id: listView
width: 180; height: 200
// currentIndex: _index
Component.onCompleted : currentIndex = _index
}
like this your list will be set at index 4