Currently, i am have a QTreeWidget setup, and it is displaying information properly. Now i am trying to interact with it. When a user clicks on a node of the treeWidget, i need to pass a custom data object thru so i can act accordingly.

in Editor.h i have the following

#include <QtWidgets/QMainWindow>
#include <QtCore/QVariant>
#include <QMetaType>
…
const int ITEM_NONE = 0;
const int ITEM_NODE = 1;
const int ITEM_COMPONENT = 2;
const int NO_ITEM = 0xFFFFFFFF;

class SceneItem {
public: SceneItem() { type_ = 0; id_ = 0; } SceneItem(unsigned type, unsigned id) { type_ = type; id_ = id; } SceneItem(SceneItem* sceneItem) { type_ = sceneItem->type_; id_ = sceneItem->id_; } ~SceneItem() { }

public: unsigned int type_; unsigned int id_;
};

Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(SceneItem*);
…
};

then inside of Editor.cpp i have the following

void OnLoad() {
…
SceneItem sceneItem;
sceneItem.id_ = 1;// scene_->GetID();
sceneItem.type_ = 1;// ITEM_NODE;

QVariant sceneItemVariant = qVariantFromValue(&sceneItem);

item->setData(0, Qt::UserRole, sceneItemVariant);

ui.sceneTreeWidget->addTopLevelItem(item);
…
}

i then have a signal setup for itemClicked to pass thru the QTreeWidgetItem, and this works.

then i try and extract the data as follows

void Editor::OnSceneTreeItemSelected(QTreeWidgetItem* item, int i) {

QVariant sceneItemVariant = item->data(0, Qt::UserRole);

SceneItem* sceneItem = sceneItemVariant.value<SceneItem*>();

UpdateSceneAttributes(sceneItem);
}

when i extract the data, sceneItem has the values of
id_ = 75661952
type_ = 0

Any suggestions of help would be much appreciated!

thanks jnmacd, that fixed it. I was using a few examples i found online. oh well. you can't always trust everything on the internet!

are you familiar with Qt?