Using a QListView or similar effectively in Qt4

c++, qt4

Solution

You should have a look at `QAbstractItemModel` and `QStandardItemModel` or create a customized TeamItemModel class for your teams that inherits from QAbstractItemModel. Those customized class will manage how the items are displayed in the Widget like QListView.

A simple for `QString` item example with `QStringList`:

QStringList list;
list << "item1" << "item2" << "item3" << "item4" << "item5";
ui->listView->setModel(new QStringListModel(list));

Then adding/removing/updating a `Team` should be easier than what you have tried.

Hope that helps.

Problem

I am slowly getting used to using the Qt4 GUI framework. In a project I am working on, I need to be able to add/edit/remove `Team` objects in a list. Coming from a C#.NET perspective, I would do something like ``` List<Team> teams = new List<Team>(); teamsListBox.DataSource = teams; teamsListBox.DisplayMember = "Name"; ``` Then use buttons on the form to do the adding/removing/editing. But, from what I can tell, there is no easy way to do this in Qt. I have looked over the documentation for QListView, QListWidget, QStandardItemModel, etc. but I cannot figure out how to get the equivalent Qt code for the C#. My objective is to show the `Team`s in a list box of some kind, then be able to add/remove/edit the `Team`s underneath it at runtime. How would you do this?

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