ModelView Autoselection

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Mohamad_Zakwan | 2020-05-07 18:29:29 UTC | #1

Anyone manage to get the autoselection working? I've been reading the document in qt official website, but could not find a direct explanation on how to do it. I manage to get auto-selection works, but it involves creating a QRect. I don't think that's the correct way.

Hank_Ericson | 2020-06-05 01:06:24 UTC | #2

Hi Mohamad,

You can get select by replacing the

python 
self.todoView.clearSelection()

part with the following:

python 
lastindex = self.model.index(len(self.model.todos)-1, 0)
self.todoView.setCurrentIndex(lastindex)

This will first get the last index as a QModelIndex from the model itself by specifying the last row (length - 1) and column 0 and then setting that index as the current index in the todoView.

Hope this helps!

Virginia | 2020-05-07 18:32:41 UTC | #3

Thank you very much! I also had the same question and couldn't find enough information using web searches to figure it out. This is very helpful!

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ModelView Autoselection was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt.

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