Delegates and model views is what most of the info seems to point to, but I can’t figure out what’s the best way to create the custom drawing. For example, can I use layouts in some way, or do I need to position the text by hand and take care of resizing etc.? Is it possible to create the items in Qt Designer (yes, I’m that lazy )?

I’ve also seen QGraphicsView mentioned as a way to do it, so I’m definitely looking forward to your upcoming post! Would be interesting to know what are the advantages compared to a normal list view.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks for your tip and yes, you are welcome to post any comments you like. I don’t mind that. Thanks for your proposal for the topic. Quick Tip for your question is that you can use Qt’s delegates for that.

What a delegate does is that, it can provide a custom look and editing behavior for your items in a Qt’s model view based widgets. You can do custom drawing there e.g. icons, text background color etc.

Delegate doc: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qabstractitemdelegate.html
ModelView doc: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/model-view-programming.html

Btw, I have a one post in my mind which is pretty close what you proposed, but it’s actually a QGraphicsView based solution for pannable list with delegates.

first of all thanks for your posts, I find your blog very useful. If you are looking for inspiration of what to write next, I have a humble suggestion: what is the best way in Qt to create a list view where the items have a non-standard and moderately complex layout (few lines of text with different sizes, images etc)? It’s a pretty common use case in mobile apps, but there is surprising little information around about how to do it in Qt. I think there is a gap to fill if you are interested.

And sorry for posting this comment here, it’s not really QML or Flickr related but I didn’t know how else to contact you.

Yes, I mention those as examples of the services that you can use via WRT. I didn’t mean that there are source code examples. I guess the best way to get familiar with MeeGo is to follow what happens in gitorious: http://meego.gitorious.org/. I’m sorry that I couldn’t point you any real examples.