Add expandingListItems property to QListView

This property allows to change the default behavior in
which list items occupy the entire width of the column.
Setting it to false will reduce their widths to the
minimum values, thus allowing to have intermediate free
space. Then the user will be able to begin selections
by mouse from this space.

[ChangeLog][QtWidgets][QListView] Added expandingListItems property.

Change-Id: I6bd1b147fd0335324310a165104c36f6b0d6ac9f
Task-number: QTBUG-56606
Reviewed-by: Anton Kudryavtsev <antkudr@mail.ru>
Reviewed-by: Thorbjørn Lund Martsum <tmartsum@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/widgets/itemviews/qlistview.cpp b/src/widgets/itemviews/qlistview.cpp
index d19e5d9a9f..5224a13456 100644
--- a/src/widgets/itemviews/qlistview.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/itemviews/qlistview.cpp
@@ -1625,6 +1625,33 @@ bool QListView::isSelectionRectVisible() const
 }
 
 /*!
+    \property QListView::expandingListItems
+    \brief if items occupy the entire width of the column
+    \since 5.9
+
+    If this property is \c true then all items in the column
+    will have the width of the column; otherwise the width of
+    each item will be determined by it's size hint.
+
+    By default, this property is \c true.
+*/
+void QListView::setExpandingListItems(bool enable)
+{
+    Q_D(QListView);
+    if (d->expandingListItems == enable)
+        return;
+    d->expandingListItems = enable;
+    if (viewMode() == ListMode && flow() == QListView::TopToBottom && isWrapping())
+        d->doDelayedItemsLayout();
+}
+
+bool QListView::isExpandingListItems() const
+{
+    Q_D(const QListView);
+    return d->expandingListItems;
+}
+
+/*!
     \reimp
 */
 bool QListView::event(QEvent *e)
@@ -1650,7 +1677,8 @@ QListViewPrivate::QListViewPrivate()
       column(0),
       uniformItemSizes(false),
       batchSize(100),
-      showElasticBand(false)
+      showElasticBand(false),
+      expandingListItems(true)
 {
 }
 
@@ -2365,7 +2393,8 @@ QListViewItem QListModeViewBase::indexToListViewItem(const QModelIndex &index) c
             int right = (segment + 1 >= segmentPositions.count()
                      ? contentsSize.width()
                      : segmentPositions.at(segment + 1));
-            size.setWidth(right - pos.x());
+            size.setWidth(dd->expandingListItems ? right - pos.x()
+                                                 : qMin(size.width(), right - pos.x()));
         } else { // make the items as wide as the viewport
             size.setWidth(qMax(size.width(), viewport()->width() - 2 * spacing()));
         }
@@ -2551,8 +2580,15 @@ QVector<QModelIndex> QListModeViewBase::intersectingSet(const QRect &area) const
             if (isHidden(row))
                 continue;
             QModelIndex index = modelIndex(row);
-            if (index.isValid())
-                ret += index;
+            if (index.isValid()) {
+                if (flow() == QListView::LeftToRight || dd->expandingListItems) {
+                    ret += index;
+                } else {
+                    const int iw = indexToListViewItem(index).width(); // item width
+                    if (iw > 0 && segStartPosition - segmentPositions.at(seg) < iw)
+                        ret += index;
+                }
+            }
 #if 0 // for debugging
             else
                 qWarning("intersectingSet: row %d was invalid", row);