Storing pointers using QListWidgetItem::setData

Question

I have a QListWidget of calendars. Each QListWidgetItem is logically associated with an instance of Calendar, which is a class that be

Answer 1

I would suggest looking at this solution as well, which I think is quite elegant: (there are minor syntax errors, but you will spot them quickly or the compiler will issue an error)

https://web.archive.org/web/20171025163314/http://blog.bigpixel.ro/2010/04/storing-pointer-in-qvariant/

Answer 2

There is another constructor for void*: QVariant::QVariant(int typeOrUserType, const void * copy) where you should pass an unique integer to represent the pointer type.

But as stated by the documentation, you could declare your pointer type with Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(Calendar*) and use QVariant::fromValue<Calendar*>(...) and QVariant::value<Calendar*>() to store and retrieve the value.

Or instead, because you are using a QListWidget instead of a regular model, you can just subclass QListWidgetItem, and add a Calendar* member variable with the required accessors, to avoid the overhead of using QVariant.