How to get QString from QListView selected item in Qt?

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I need to get the selected item name in QListView as a QString. I have tried to google, but I haven't found anything useful.

Look at the `QListView` documentation (especially its [member list](http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qlistview-members.html) ) to see how to get the current index (a `QModelIndex` object), and from the index, you'll be able to get its data content (a `QVariant` that you can convert to a `QString`). — alexisdm, Jun 28 '12 at 13:49

KCiebiera · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-28T17:25:27.170

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It depends on selectionMode lets say you have ExtendedSelection which means you can select any number of items (including 0).

ui->listView->setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView::ExtendedSelection);

you should iterate through ui->listView->selectionModel()->selectedIndexes() to find indexes of selected items, and then call text() method to get item texts:

QStringList list;
foreach(const QModelIndex &index, 
        ui->listView->selectionModel()->selectedIndexes())
    list.append(model->itemFromIndex(index)->text());
qDebug() << list.join(",");

edited Jun 28 '12 at 17:25

answered Jun 28 '12 at 17:12

KCiebiera

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What is `model' here? – Praneeth Peiris Sep 25 '14 at 15:35
Is there a clean way to use that for QListViews with ```QAbstractItemView::ExtendedSelection``` disabled? I.e. if only one selection is possible and the loop and list therefore become needless? – Paddre Sep 04 '15 at 05:56

score 19 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '16 at 16:03

In case if QAbstractItemView::ExtendedSelection is disabled (only possible to select one item at a time), this is how you can do it without any loop:

QModelIndex index = ui->listView->currentIndex();
QString itemText = index.data(Qt::DisplayRole).toString();

How to get QString from QListView selected item in Qt?

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