Using QTreeView, how to highlight only specific row/colum with calling function? - c++

Question

I am using C++ Qt5. Currently I have a QStandardItemModel being displayed as a QTreeView with multiple rows and columns. I am aware of using setStyleSheet(), but the issue there is that every row and column that the mouse hovers is highlighted.
I would only like specific rows of the first column to be highlighted, and then have a function called for each cell highlighted that I would then use to manipulate my game.

Answer 1

The solution for a personalized painting is to use a custom delegate, and to indicate which item should change the color a role should be used, in the following code I show an example:
#include <QApplication>
#include <QStandardItemModel>
#include <QStyledItemDelegate>
#include <QTreeView>
class StyledItemDelegate: public QStyledItemDelegate{
public:
using QStyledItemDelegate::QStyledItemDelegate;
protected:
void initStyleOption(QStyleOptionViewItem *option, const QModelIndex &index) const{
QStyledItemDelegate::initStyleOption(option, index);
if(index.data(Qt::UserRole +1).toBool())
option->backgroundBrush = QBrush(Qt::red);
}
};
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);
QTreeView w;
StyledItemDelegate delegate(&w);
w.setItemDelegate(&delegate);
QStandardItemModel model;
model.setColumnCount(4);
w.setModel(&model);
for(int i=0; i<4; i++){
auto it = new QStandardItem(QString::number(i));
model.appendRow(it);
for(int j=0; j<3; j++){
it->appendRow(new QStandardItem(QString("%1-%2").arg(i).arg(j)));
}
}
QObject::connect(&w, &QTreeView::clicked, [&](const QModelIndex & index){
bool last_state = model.data(index, Qt::UserRole +1).toBool();
model.setData(index, !last_state, Qt::UserRole +1);
});
w.expandAll();
w.show();
return a.exec();
}