"expandBelow" in TreeView: Shortcut vs. method
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Hi guys,
using PyQt I've got a major performance issue with my hand-coded "expandBelow" method of a QTreeView, which is supposed to expand the tree recursively below a selected row. However, there's a key shortcut for this action (at least on Windows): the "*" key. Despite not being as fast as the expandAll method (which is incredibly fast) it's considerably faster then my Python method.
Any ideas, how the behaviour of the "*" key is implemented and how I could access it from PyQt?
Cheers,
Jan
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In general, a treeview has a method for that:
"QTreeView::expand":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qtreeview.html#expand
You could try it.
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But it expands only one level. In my code I call this method for all children recursively. And that takes quite a long time. Here's the Python code I'm using:
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def expand_below_recursive(self):
index = self.selectedIndexes()[0]
q = deque([index])
while q:
idx = q.popleft()
self.expand(idx)
for i in range(self.model.rowCount(idx)):
q.append(self.model.index(i,0, idx))
@By the way, browsing the source I've found a merge request for methods "expandBranch" and "collapsBranch". They don't seem to have made it to Qt 4.8, do they?
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Here: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/merge_requests/2453
As I'm not used to git I'm not sure what it all means. Status is "update", but the last reply in the thread is over a year old. Looks like it hasn't been pursued.
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Ok, "Lab Rat" mistake:
I had the expanded-signal connected to the resizeColumn-slot. The resizeColumn method is called on every expansion which is the culprit for the bad performance. As the expandAll method and probably the "*"-triggered expansion don't trigger the expanded-signal, the resizeColumn-method is not called in these cases.
Now the Python method listed above is lightening fast. Hurray for Python ... and Qt, of course. ;-)
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I don'T know why, but in last time, gitorious seems not to be used anymore, as qtproject.org is used. For Qt, gitoripus is now a read only copy.
I think, re pushing this request on qtproject would give it a bigger chance. -
Yes, but that site has been open now for just over week, while the MR was in gitorious for well over a year now. I certainly hope the MR will be pushed to the new system, but I fear that not seeing your MR being taken up for more than a year can be such a demotivating experience that contributers won't bother anymore.