Creating a simple M/V application with Qt Quick

In earlier sections, we discussed Qt's Model-View-Delegate framework. You learned how to create a custom Model and delegate and how to use a C++ Model. But you must be wondering how to integrate with our QML frontend. In this section, we will create a C++ Model and expose it to the QML engine. We will also discuss how to register a custom Model as a QML type.

Let's create an application that fetches a Model from the C++ code and displays it in a Qt Quick-based application:

#include <QGuiApplication>
#include <QQmlApplicationEngine>
#include <QQmlContext>
#include <QStringListModel>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);
    QQmlApplicationEngine engine;
    QStringList stringList;
    stringList << "Item 1" << "Item 2" << "Item 3" 
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