Using QStringListModel as model in ListView

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Hello everybody. I'm currently playing around with Qt Quick. I'm trying to write an remote control application for qBittorrent. Through its web API it is possible to fetch all kinds of information. The software allows you to sort torrents into different categories. I wanted to list these catagories using a ListView.

I've written the non-ui code in C++. In C++ the data is fetched and parsed, and made available to QML. I've put the source code on github.

This function returns all the categories
This line of qml code is giving me issues

I can access this property from QML without any issues. If I set the delegate of the ListView to:

delegate: Text {
    text: display
    width: parent.width
}

The code works as expected, I get the following result

However if i change the Delegate from Text to ItemDelegate, the text is set to '2'

delegate: ItemDelegate {
   text: display
   width: parent.width
}

Using this code, I get the following result

I'm absolutely clueless of why this is happening. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[6thC]

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-modelviewsdata-modelview.html#qml-data-models

I assume display is the property name you want? This rough as guts ListModel driven copy and slight modification works for me - perhaps your model?

QStringListModel *categories(); // <= can you make this a public slot and call it directly?

I use QStringList results from c++ to drive QML models everywhere, but I don't invoke function pointers like that. I'll use a public slot or a Q_INVOKABLE (but I never do I just use a public slot)
c++

public slots:
    QStringList getSomethingPlurals();

qml:

var cppCopyModel    = NamedInstanceQMLContextCpp.getSomethingPlurals();
// OR
 property ListModel seriesModel : NamedInstanceQMLContextCpp.getSomethingPlurals();

You code (kinda) with a QML ListModel seemingly working fine...

ApplicationWindow {
    visible: true
    width: 640
    height: 480
    title: qsTr("Hello World")
    id: root // window
    color: "black"

    ListModel {id : modelInstance
        ListElement {propertyNameUnused: "first"; name:"aaa";}
        ListElement {propertyNameUnused: "second"; name:"bbb";}
        ListElement {propertyNameUnused: "third"; name:"ccc";}
    }

    Item {
        anchors.fill: parent
        ListView {
                   id: listView
                   anchors.fill: parent
                   headerPositioning: ListView.OverlayHeader
                   header: Pane {
                       id: header
                       z: 2
                       width: parent.width
                       contentHeight: lbl_status.height

                       Text {
                           id: lbl_status
                           text: "Status"
                       }

                       MenuSeparator {
                           parent: header
                           width: parent.width
                           anchors.verticalCenter: parent.bottom
                       }
                   }

                   footer: ItemDelegate {
                       id: footer
                       text: qsTr("Footer")
                       width: parent.width

                       MenuSeparator {
                           parent: footer
                           width: parent.width
                           anchors.verticalCenter: parent.top
                       }
                   }

                   model: modelInstance // Torrents.categories

                   delegate:  ItemDelegate { // Text {
                     //  color: "white" // works with Text type
                       text: name
                       width: parent.width
                   }

                   ScrollIndicator.vertical: ScrollIndicator { }
               }
    }

HTH

[GrecKo]

ItemDelegate has a display property : https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls2-abstractbutton.html#display-prop .
To dipslay the display role, you have to explicitely specifiy it like so:
text: model.display, this is usually preferable since it prevents shadowing and make it clearer where the value comes from.

[SmokeyTheBandit]

@GrecKo If I use text: model.display, the text is displayed correctly. Thanks for your help!