QListView with checkboxes for viewing of filesystem

Question

It is necessary to list of directories by given path in QListView whith icons and checkboxes, then transmit names of marked folders to the program. For list directories i use code:

#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QFileSystemModel>
#include <QListView>


    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
        QApplication a(argc, argv);

        QFileSystemModel model;

        QListView listView;
        listView.setModel(&model);
        listView.setRootIndex(model.setRootPath("C:\\Program Files"));
        listView.show();

        return a.exec();
    }

How to add checkboxes and transmit it after pushing button?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There's nothing you can do that would fit in just a few lines. You can either derive from QFileSystemModel and add a checkbox column, or create a proxy model that will do the same.

Note that you can use built-in selection mechanism to Ctrl-click/⌘-click to expand the selection to multiple items:

//main.cpp
#include <QApplication>
#include <QFileSystemModel>
#include <QGridLayout>
#include <QListView>
#include <QPushButton>
#include <QMessageBox>

class Win : public QWidget
{
    Q_OBJECT
    QListView * view;
    QPushButton * button;
public:
    Win(QAbstractItemModel * model, const QModelIndex & idx) :
        view(new QListView(this)), button(new QPushButton("List Selection", this))
    {
        QGridLayout * lay = new QGridLayout;
        lay->addWidget(view, 0, 0, 1, 2);
        lay->addWidget(button, 1, 0);
        setLayout(lay);
        view->setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView::MultiSelection);
        view->setModel(model);
        view->setRootIndex(idx);
        connect(button, SIGNAL(clicked()), SLOT(showSelection()));
    }
public slots:
    void showSelection() {
        QString str;
        foreach (QModelIndex i, view->selectionModel()->selectedIndexes()) {
            str.append(i.data().toString());
            str.append("\n");
        }
        QMessageBox::information(this, "Selected items", str);
    }
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    QFileSystemModel model;
    Win v(&model, model.setRootPath("/"));
    v.show();
    return a.exec();
}

#include "main.moc"