Differing views — model/view architecture

A consistent theme between Qt Widgets and QML, the two GUI technologies Qt offers, is the use of the model/view architecture.

Simply put, the model/view architecture separates the data (model) from the display (view) of the data. This allows you to separate how the data is updated from how the UI designer presents the data. Should the UI designer change how the data is viewed, the code that puts the data in the model doesn't have to be changed.

A quick dive

For whatever reason, the concept of a model/view architecture was one of the harder ones for me to understand. It is really straightforward, but I had a mental block. Finally, I wrote some sample code to help me understand...