[Kde-bindings] Custom data types in a QAbstractItemModel?

[Arno Rehn]

On Wednesday 10 February 2010 21:38:12 IBBoard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm back with another Qt#/Qyoto question - this time about the
> Model/View code. I've tried reading the documentation, but while I can
> see what looks like a promising section of the API I've not been able to
> work out how to actually use it!
> 
> Basically, I'm used to WinForms (which lets you set a model of arbitrary
> data objects) and GTK# (which also lets you add arbitrary models in a
> data store that widgets use) in .Net/C# and I've used SWT in Java (which
> doesn't have full models, but does let you call a "setData" function
> with a string and an object, which gets a similar effect in most
> situations).
> 
> Looking at QAbstractItemModel, it seems to take QVariants as its data.
> Looking at QVariant there is a "UserType" as well as all of the
> Q-wrappers around standard data types. Unfortunately I've not been able
> how to use the "UserType" to wrap a user type yet. I've tried
> "QVariant.FromValue(object)", but that complains about not being able to
> infer generic parameters and if I try
> "QVariant.FromValue<QVariant>(object)" then it throws class cast
> exceptions.
Try QVariant.FromValue<type of your class>(object) instead.

example:
var variant = QVariant.FromValue<IntPtr>(new IntPtr());

works fine for me.
The question now is whether the value is correctly stored in the QVariant for 
non-Qt-classes. The above IntPtr example doesn't seem to preserve the value. 
That might be because IntPtr is a value-type though.

-- 
Arno Rehn
arno at arnorehn.de