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

To add to @Skilldrick's answer, if you need to apply this to a view that has already been instantiated because you're using Qt Designer, you can do something like this:

import new
def mousePressEvent(self, event):
    self.clearSelection()
    QtGui.QTableView.mousePressEvent(self, event)
self.ui.tableView.mousePressEvent = new.instancemethod(mousePressEvent, self.ui.tableView, None)

This assumes that your view is self.ui.tableView.

Thanks to this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1647616/1300519