Select multiple items in QListWidget programmatically

Question

It's possible to select a single item/row, but I want to set multiple items selected (the widget is configured to allow that). Is it possible?

Answer 1

You can find all QListWidgetItem* items you want to select and use QListWidgetItem::setSelected on them. This should support multiple selection if the list is configured for QAbstractItemView::ExtendedSelection.

Answer 2

I've found this question while looking for the same answer. However, I am using Python (PyQt5) with Qt Creator.

Using PyQt5 you can set the SelectionMode by using:

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets    


QtWidgets.QListWidget.setSelectionMode(2)

where

• SelectionMode = 0 => NoSelection
• SelectionMode = 1 => SingleSelection
• SelectionMode = 2 => MultiSelection
• SelectionMode = 3 => ExtendedSelection
• SelectionMode = 4 => ContiguousSelection

Reference

In Qt Creator you find this option here: