How can i sort an alphanumeric string in abstract table view

[manikandan]

Hi, am new to QT. I am using a QAbstractTableModel for displaying some file information. One of the column contains size of the file. If the size is maintained as double[without any unit like Kb, Mb, Gb] then sorting works fine with the following code

class MyModel : public QAbstractTableModel   
{
...
...
}

QSortFilterProxyModel *proxyModel = new QSortFilterProxyModel(this);
proxyModel->setSourceModel( myModel );
ui->tableView->setModel( proxyModel );

But when i try to maintain the file size in human readable format[with units Kb, Mb, Gb] then i changed double to QString and then sorting is not in proper order. I know that sorting of strings work based on ASCII values but how can i achieve proper sorting for this case?

PS: I tried implementing lessthan function on my own, but faced ambiguity error because of QAbstractTableModel and QSortFilterProxyModel

[Chris Kawa]

Hi, welcome to the forum.

No need to implement string sorting. It will be slow and is unnecessary. This is a good use case for user roles in a model.
Make the model return a decorated string value for Qt::DisplayRole and the original double value for some custom role (e.g. Qt::UserRole). Then set the sorting role in the proxy model like this: proxyModel->setSortRole(Qt::UserRole); and you should be good to go. Displayed will be the string but for sorting the original double value will be used.

Btw. surround code with ``` to make it format better (I corrected your post).

[manikandan]

Thank you Chris...It works :)