Is it possible to deselect in a QTreeView by clicking off an item?

Question

I\'d like to be able to deselect items in my QTreeView by clicking in a part of the QTreeView with no items in, but I can\'t seem to find anyway of doing this. I\'d intercep

Answer 1

QTreeView inherits from QAbstractView (http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.6/qtreeview.html) which has a clicked signal. The problem is that the signal is emitted only when index is valid so you can not achieve what you want with this signal.

Try to intercept the mousePressEvent instead. In the function you can find where the user has clicked and deselect selected item if needed.