How to know if QListWidgetItem is hidden by scroll?

Question

Well, i'm newbie in Qt and i have a problem.

I have a QListWidget in my UI with 7 items, just 4 items are showed and the other are showed after to use scrollbar. I want to show a arrow image above and below QListWidet than will show than there are more items to scroll.

Ok, i can to see if a item is hidden, but just if it is hidden by setHidden() function. And when is it hidden by scroll? Can i see this in run time? Because the item is there, but scroll is hiding it, right?

I searched some post about this here, but i did not find. Sorry my english, maybe be confused, but if someone to can help me...

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

So Here is basic example on how to do it. First here is the listing of the MainWindow class implementation:

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
QMainWindow(parent),
ui(new Ui::MainWindow)

{

ui->setupUi(this);

QListWidget *listW = new QListWidget;
//Add some items
for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
    QListWidgetItem *item = new QListWidgetItem("Item" + QString::number(i));
    listW->addItem(item);
}

listW->setVerticalScrollMode(QAbstractItemView::ScrollPerItem);
listW->setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(Qt::ScrollBarAsNeeded);
//Set reimplemented scroll bar
listW->setVerticalScrollBar(new ScrollBar);
setCentralWidget(listW);

}

As you can see from the code I have set the scroll bar policy to Qt::ScrollBarAsNeeded. By doing that we can take advantage of the fact that we can now react on show/hide events from the scrollbar. And here is reimplementation of the QScrollBar:

ScrollBar::ScrollBar(QWidget *parent) :
QScrollBar(parent)
{
}


void ScrollBar::hideEvent(QHideEvent *e) 
{
  emit showTip(false);
}


void ScrollBar::showEvent(QShowEvent *e) 
{
  emit showTip(true);
}

Now you can connect the showTip(bool) signal from the ScrollBar to the slot that draws the image.