Access Listview currentIndex from Delegate

Question

I have a QML ListView where the delegate loads it's component from another file. When clicking on an delegate item, I want to update ListView. CurrentIndex and highlight the selected item.

It works, when I explicitly set the id of the ListView. However since I want to use the delegate's Component also for other ListViews, I'm stuggeling to find a generic way how to access ListView.currentIndex from within a delegate Component.

Here is the Code:

main.qml

import QtQuick 2.4
import QtQuick.Controls 1.3
import QtQuick.Window 2.2
import QtQuick.Dialogs 1.2

ApplicationWindow {
    title: qsTr("Hello World")
    width: 640
    height: 480
    visible: true

    ListModel {
        id: contactsModel
        ListElement {
            name: "Bill Smith"
        }
        ListElement {
            name: "John Brown"
        }
        ListElement {
            name: "Sam Wise"
        }
    }

    ListView{
        id: contactsView
        anchors.left: parent.left
        anchors.top: parent.top
        width: parent.width
        height: parent.height
        orientation: Qt.Vertical
        spacing: 10
        model: contactsModel
        delegate: Contact{}
    }
}

Contact.qml (Component used by delegate)

import QtQuick 2.0

Component{
    id: contact
    Rectangle{
        width: 200
        height: 50
        color: ListView.isCurrentItem ? "#003366" : "#585858"
        border.color: "gray"
        border.width: 1

        MouseArea{
            anchors.fill: parent
            onClicked: {
                ListView.currentIndex = index; // <---- does not work
                //  contactsView.currentIndex = index; // <---- Works
            }
        }

        Text{
            anchors.centerIn: parent
            color: "white"
            text: name
        }
    }
}

Any help is really appreciated!

Answer 1

There are two problems here:

• You need to qualify ListView's attached properties with the name of the item from which they're accessed.
• The currentIndex property is a property of the ListView item type, not the attached property object.

To fix them both, first change this:

ListView.currentIndex = index;

to this:

delegate.ListView.view.currentIndex = index;

And then give your delegate an id:

Component {
    id: contact

    Rectangle {
        id: delegate
    // ...
}

This is demonstrated (in part) by the Example Usage section of the documentation:

ListView attaches a number of properties to the root item of the delegate, for example ListView:isCurrentItem. In the following example, the root delegate item can access this attached property directly as ListView.isCurrentItem, while the child contactInfo object must refer to this property as wrapper.ListView.isCurrentItem.