[SOLVED] ListView's flickable problems

Alicemirror

See the following example. Sorry but I get it from a more complex piece of code so I think it can't work. BTW you can get the idea applying it in your code without difficult.
@
// Login form for registered users
Item {
id: login

width: parent.width;
// Height is set based on the height value of the text area.
height: background.textHeight

signal newuserClicked; signal loginClicked

[... some custom properties definition ...]

// Main background recatngle with information text
Rectangle {
    id: background
    width: parent.width
    property alias textHeight: textIntro.paintedHeight
    height: parent.height
    anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
    anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
    color: "#d1cece"; border.color: "#eeeeee";
    border.width: Geometry.getFormBorder();
    radius: Geometry.getRadius()
    // Introductory text over the login area.
    Text {
        id: textIntro
        width: background.width * 0.95; anchors.top: background.top
        anchors.topMargin: 5;
        anchors.horizontalCenter: background.horizontalCenter
        color: "#ffffff"
        wrapMode: TextEdit.Wrap; font.pointSize: Geometry.getFontPoints();
        text: login.loginIntro
    }
}

[... other stuff ...]
}
@

Hope it can help you.

Milnadar

Or it is me who make it wrong, or i don't know :)
As for rectangles and text inside of it, in my current code text is in rectangle already, and my delegate's height depends on text height and if Loader component is loaded, it's height added to delegate's height, and there is also separator line to separate two types of items in the view; I thought that something in my current code is making contentHeight value "jumping", so i just created small example project and test everything using it;
I also noticed that contentHeight value changed when item with higher height scrolls away or returns to screen; So i think that contentHeight depends on items visibility or smth.
p.s. tried to set item's height from model - didn't help
Here is example that i am using
ListDelegate.qml
@
Component{
Item{
height: layout.height
Rectangle{
id: layout
height: index == 3 ? 50 : 20
TextEdit{
id: edit
height: paintedHeight
font {pixelSize: 20}
text: title
}
}
}
}
@

ListModel.qml
@
ListModel{
id: model
ListElement{
title: "this is test text"
}
ListElement{
title: "World"
}
ListElement{
title: "Some more text"
}
ListElement{
title: "And some more :)"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
ListElement{
title: "Dummy text"
}
}
@

main.qml
@
import QtQuick 1.0

Rectangle {
width: 360
height: 360

ListView{
    id: view
    anchors {fill: parent;}
    spacing: 5
    delegate: ListDelegate{}
    model: ListModel{}
    Rectangle{
        anchors {fill: view.contentItem;}
        color: "transparent"
        border {color: "red"; width: 2;}
    }
    onContentYChanged: {console.log(contentHeight)}
}

}

@

Milnadar

Project from which you posted part of code, as i understand there are no problems with contentHeight?
Or they are just invisible? )

Alicemirror

This is the solution that I have adopted to solve the problem of content height.

Two strange things in your example: ListDelegate.qml is the ListItem ? It seems you have misunderstood the role of the three elements Item, Model and Delegate.

Milnadar

It's probably when i say item i mean the item in the list, and when i say delegate, i mean the delegate. I think i do understand the role of three elements, and just build my sentences wrong.
Could you please explain what you find strange in that example?
ListDelegate.qml it is a delegate;

alex2202375

I have the similar problem with ListView. The each model data provides one line of text, and the delegate shows the text with Text. And then I find two problems:

If I use ListView.positionViewAtIndex(index, ListView.Beginning) to position the view at certain line of text, the contentY is always incorrect.
If the text has large number of lines, after flicking more than 200 times, the ListView stops loading text from model. Then the listView becomes blank, no matter flick up or down...

Alicemirror

Hi,

later today I should manage the two problems of the variable text and a text list. I apply the example I posted before in a text-only list so we can check with an example.

@alex: is possible that it is a problem of memory? The documentaion reports that the best behavior in a list is obtained when you load few elements at a time and update the list at the end of the scrolling. Thus you should manage a large number of lines loading them by blocks. As a matter of fact it is not userful to have a list longer so much than the number of elements that can be shown at a time.

A general consideration to your issue is: a correct method to show variable height elements in a list exist because most of the lists i.e. the twitter feeds programs have a final button - usually thicker than the other - showing "load more ..."

As I have a working piece of code I will post here.

alex2202375

Alicemirror: I don't think this is a memory problem, because I use QAbstractListModel to provide the data, and following is the data function that I used:
@QVariant RFileModel::data(const QModelIndex & index, int /role/) const {
int row = index.row();
return data(row);
}

QVariant RFileModel::data(int row) const {
// return QVariant();
if (row < m_file_line_pos.count()) {
if (m_file->seek(m_file_line_pos[row])) {
QTextStream stream(m_file);
stream.setCodec(m_codec);
stream.setAutoDetectUnicode(true);
QString str = stream.readLine();
if (str.length() || !m_file->atEnd()) {
qDebug()<<"Read str row"<<row
<<"pos"<<m_file_line_pos[row]
<<"length"<<str.length()<<str;
return str+KNewLine;
}
else {
qDebug()<<"read file line failed, line number"<<row
<<"Position"<<m_file_line_pos[row]
<<m_file->errorString();
}
}
else {
qDebug()<<"could not seek to position/line"<<m_file_line_pos[row]<<row;
}
}
else {
qDebug()<<"row number is too large:row/max"<<row<<m_file_line_pos.count();
}
return QVariant();
}@

Alicemirror

Thank yo Alex, just a ping :) I'll answer to this shortly

Milnadar

still actual

mbrasser

[quote author="Milnadar" date="1316020663"]I noticed that when (vertical) listView's items has different height, contentHeight value doesn't equal to height of all items. When changing ListView's height, contentHeight may be larger or smaller than it should be. Why is it so? How does ListView count it's contentHeight?[/quote]

When items in a vertical ListView don't have a fixed height, contentHeight is estimated. This is to avoid the cost of instantiating every item in order to query their actual height.

Regards,
Michael

Mixa84

Im sorry to bring this topic from the dead, but I still dont see what is the solution to this problem and I need to solve this.

Here is the example of the code on which I`m trying to resolve the problem with contentHeight change and also with a problem when you go to positionViewAtEnd() contentY get some strange values:

@
import QtQuick 1.1

Rectangle
{
width: 360
height: 360

ListView
{
    id: lv
    anchors.fill: parent
    anchors.bottomMargin: 50
    spacing: 5
    model: msgmodel
    delegate:
        Rectangle
        {
            id: rect;
            width: lv.width;
            height: txt.height;
            Text
            {
                id: txt;

                width: 50;
                anchors.topMargin: 5;

                wrapMode: Text.WordWrap;
                text: " contentY: " + lv.contentY + "|" + lv.contentHeight + " y: " + y + " " + msgtext;
            }
        }
}

Text
{
    id: btn;
    objectName: "btn";

    signal add();

    text: "Click to move at end"
    anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
    MouseArea
    {
        anchors.fill: parent
        onReleased:  lv.positionViewAtEnd();
    }
}

}
@

Every time I go to view end contentY at the top of the view goes more in negative value.

EDIT: I have also tried this in QtQuick 2.0 and it is working better but it still has problem when going to view end. But this time instead of going into negative value, contentY increase its value.

Mixa84

Is there any solution to this when you have ListView items with variable height?

Milnadar

Hi Mixa84.

Yes, there is a solution, but it is about to implement your own listVew .

I mark this topic as solved.

mdrost

In my opinion ListView should be doing what it says in the docs, even if it is slow.

Kieren

Thank you for the good discussion.
Helped me a lot to understand my problem.

Even so it is kind of disappointing, that we can't even use the sizeHintRole for ListViews.
Or have an option to supply the ListView with the correct contentHeight, so it doesn't try calculate it on its own...

I've the idea of wrapping the actual list view into another flick able object to kind of wrap the broken scrolling with an item i can control the scrolling better. If it works I'll paste it here.

Pradip

@Milnadar
Hi, Milnadar,

I am stuck in same problem. You have discussed here everything except solution.
Can you please tell me the way to proceed with Listview and Scrollbar problem with different height's delegates.

Berzeck

Well I found another solution. I post here so maybe it helps sombedody.

You need to declare a global property which stores the height. For example : reViewHeight
Put the ListView inside a transparent Rectangle: rcView, and put the rectangle inside the ScrollView
Add: Component.onCompleted: { reViewHeight = reViewHeight + height} in your delegate definition
In the ListView add: onCountChanged: { rcView.height = reViewHeight }

Done !

crazymax

up
@Berzeck it didn't help me
Any another solution for this problem?