Is there a way to list the full path of an item from QTreeView without using QFileSystemModel?

DoubleC122

Hi, I wanted to know if there was a way to do that, since my items in the QTreeView are not from the filesystem itself (to be precise, they are items from a zip archive).

mrjj

Hi
But how does the data end up in the TreeView/model in first place ?
From the zip i Mean ?

DoubleC122

Oh, I use a libarchive function that returns a set of strings that looks like this:

Content file: Tst/
Content file: Tst/Tst/
Content file: Tst/Tst/24/efaea
Content file: Tst/Tst/24/efaev
Content file: Tst/Tst/contents_Test/
Content file: Tst/Tst/contents_Test/contents_Test.zip.txt
Content file: Tst/Tst/fff/ef/rgreg.txt
Content file: Tst/Tst/fff/efafae

From here I take each string and build a QByteArray that is passed to a TreeModel constructor and then I set that as the model for my QTreeView (there is much more behind but this is just as a quick way to explain what I did)

mrjj

@DoubleC122
ok, but how would u get the full path from that ?
Im wondering why you simply cant store the extra info in a userRole for the model
if issues you show one thing, but need full path when clicked.

DoubleC122

You mean the full path from that set of strings?

mrjj

@DoubleC122
yes, i mean what is the full path ?
Is it included in the archive ?

DoubleC122

Well, to make things a bit more clear, from those strings (using a function I made) I just make a QBitArray that looks like this:

QBA: 
Tst
 Tst
  24
   efaea
   efaev
  contents_Test
   contents_Test.zip.txt
  fff
   ef
    rgreg.txt
   efafae

This is passed in the constructor of a TreeView class (I used the example from http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-itemviews-simpletreemodel-example.html). That, based on the blank spaces you see there, files the data to the QTreeView. My actual problem is that I'd need, when clicking on one item, to get the full path, just as I would with QTreeWidget, but QTreeView doesn't seem to have methods like ```
selectedItems().first().

JonB

@mrjj
I think he means (or might mean!): if you've got a treeview with nodes whose "name" is Tst etc., and the children with node names as shown, can you get the treeview to "walk" to generate the full "path" to any node by joining the names, like a filing system?

DoubleC122

@JonB Indeed, but all I have seen online uses QTreeWidgetItem, which needs a QTreeWidget.

JonB

@DoubleC122
I know that QTreeWidget is built on QTreeView but adds extra levels for convenience, so that may not be suprising. You can always walk the tree to discover the path to a node. But perhaps there is a better/inbuilt way.

mrjj

@JonB
ahh, thank you. :)
As far as i know you would have to travel the nodes your self and build it.
Or the model.
there is
view->selectionModel()->selectedIndexes() which might have a first()

DoubleC122

@mrjj Yeah, this seems to be working alright. Thanks