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