<![CDATA[Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*>]]>I am developing for Android and trying to create a Menu with items populated dynamically from a model which is assigned from C++.

QML I use is like this:
@
ApplicationWindow {
menuBar: MenuBar {
Menu {
id: menu
Instantiator {
id: menuInstantiator
MenuItem {
text: model.title || ""
}
onObjectAdded: menu.insertItem(index, object)
onObjectRemoved: menu.removeItem(object)
}
}
}
}
@

C++ code is like this:
@
class Info: public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT

// Properties for use in QML
Q_PROPERTY(QString id READ id)
Q_PROPERTY(QString title READ title)

public:
Info(const QString& id, QObject *parent = 0);

QString id() const { return m_id; }
QString title() const { return m_title; }

private:
QString m_id;
QString m_title;
};

...
QList<QObject*> infos;
infos.append(new Info(1));
infos.append(new Info(2));
QObject* menu->setProperty("model", QVariant::fromValue(infos));
...

@

The problem is that this is not working - clicking on the menu bar button does not open the menu. As a side effect other menus also stop working.

Similar code with QStringList is working fine. However i want to show one string as item text and pass a different string as item id for triggered event. Thats why I use Info object instead of single string per item

What am I doing wrong?

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/41694/cant-make-instantiator-work-with-qlist-qobjectRSS for NodeSat, 16 May 2026 10:38:41 GMTWed, 21 May 2014 20:08:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Sun, 08 Jun 2014 14:59:56 GMT]]>Thanks, I'll check this

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/231316https://forum.qt.io/post/231316Sun, 08 Jun 2014 14:59:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:42:38 GMT]]>I discovered that template into the documentation:
QQmlListProperty

Maybe can be a solution for your problem.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/231209https://forum.qt.io/post/231209Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:42:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Tue, 27 May 2014 20:55:10 GMT]]>Humm... maybe we are both stupid... because I tried lot in the past and the QList<QObject*> never worked. That's why I developed the workaround I posted.
I'll do some further test.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/230092https://forum.qt.io/post/230092Tue, 27 May 2014 20:55:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Tue, 27 May 2014 20:48:52 GMT]]>Well, I am not sure if QListObject is really needed as documentation suggests that QList<QObject*> should work: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtquick-modelviewsdata-cppmodels.html. That makes me think that my case is either a bug or I am doing something stupid with the later being more likely as I am really new to QML and Qt.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/230091https://forum.qt.io/post/230091Tue, 27 May 2014 20:48:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Mon, 26 May 2014 19:53:38 GMT]]>I think that for get QList<QObject*> work we should file a feature request and to add a derived type QListObjects similar to QStringList and making it usable into QML as QStringList.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/229925https://forum.qt.io/post/229925Mon, 26 May 2014 19:53:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Mon, 26 May 2014 19:50:08 GMT]]>Thanks for the tips, Gianluca, it helped. Although it would be nicer if QList<QObject*> version worked

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/229924https://forum.qt.io/post/229924Mon, 26 May 2014 19:50:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Mon, 26 May 2014 06:49:55 GMT]]>Ah, I was forgetting... PAY ATTENTION TO THE OWNERSHIP OF RETURNING QOBJECT* :

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtqml-cppintegration-data.html

It's an important aspect that if taken not seriously into account will crash your app.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/229844https://forum.qt.io/post/229844Mon, 26 May 2014 06:49:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Mon, 26 May 2014 06:47:05 GMT]]>I always get problem on passing QList<QObject*> to QML side too.
I think that the problem is due to the fact that QML for some reason cannot properly see a custom QList instantiation.
But, as you notice too, with QStringList everything works fine.
So, my workaround to passing a complex object is to use a QStringList as a list of object IDs and use a slot for getting the corresponding QObject.
Something like that:
@
Instantiator {
id: menuInstantiator
MenuItem {
property InfoObject obj: backend.getInfoObject( modelData )
text: obj.title || ""
}
}
@
where backend is a QObject globally visible to QML with a slot that return a QObject* given an QString id. And the modelData is one of the element of the QStringList that you pass from C++ to QML.

Important: InfoObject has to declare the properties via Q_PROPERTY and to registered with qmlRegisterType otherwise QML cannot see it properly.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/229843https://forum.qt.io/post/229843Mon, 26 May 2014 06:47:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Sat, 24 May 2014 18:01:46 GMT]]>Yes, my bad. I changed the code a lot and that code was not the initial code I was expecting to work.

Originally on ApplicationWindow i declared alias property:
@
property alias menuModel: menuInstantiator.model
@

and in c++ I called:
@
QObject* root->setProperty("menuModel", QVariant::fromValue(infos));
@

However the important point I think is that the same code worked with QStringList, but not with QList<Object*>. Of course expression for MenuItem.text property should be different for QStringList and QList<Object*>, but I would expect only empty or incorrect texts in later case. Now menu is not showing at all

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/229720https://forum.qt.io/post/229720Sat, 24 May 2014 18:01:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cant make Instantiator work with QList<QObject*> on Fri, 23 May 2014 08:52:44 GMT]]>While I didn't test your code, it looks like you are setting the "model" property on the Menu when you should really be setting it on the "menuInstantiator" itself.

See the bottom of http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-menu.html for an example.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/229572https://forum.qt.io/post/229572Fri, 23 May 2014 08:52:44 GMT