Made QTreeWidgetItem::operator<() check if the data is numerical when comparing.

More information in task 166873.

Merge-request: 514
Reviewed-by: Jan-Arve Sæther <jan-arve.saether@nokia.com>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/gui/itemviews/qtreewidget.cpp b/src/gui/itemviews/qtreewidget.cpp
index a2bfe45..1c87580 100644
--- a/src/gui/itemviews/qtreewidget.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/itemviews/qtreewidget.cpp
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ void QTreeModel::sort(int column, Qt::SortOrder order)
     if (column < 0 || column >= columnCount())
         return;
 
-    //layoutAboutToBeChanged and layoutChanged will be called by sortChildren 
+    //layoutAboutToBeChanged and layoutChanged will be called by sortChildren
     rootItem->sortChildren(column, order, true);
 }
 
@@ -695,6 +695,29 @@ bool QTreeModel::itemGreaterThan(const QPair<QTreeWidgetItem*,int> &left,
 }
 
 /*!
+    \internal
+
+    Returns true if the type of the variant \a value
+    can be casted as double.
+*/
+bool QTreeModel::canConvertToDouble(const QVariant &value)
+{
+    switch (value.type()) {
+        case QVariant::Bool:
+        case QVariant::Int:
+        case QVariant::UInt:
+        case QVariant::LongLong:
+        case QVariant::ULongLong:
+        case QVariant::Double:
+        case QVariant::Char:
+            return true;
+        default:
+            return false;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+/*!
   \internal
 */
 QList<QTreeWidgetItem*>::iterator QTreeModel::sortedInsertionIterator(
@@ -1787,7 +1810,11 @@ QVariant QTreeWidgetItem::data(int column, int role) const
 bool QTreeWidgetItem::operator<(const QTreeWidgetItem &other) const
 {
     int column = view ? view->sortColumn() : 0;
-    return text(column) < other.text(column);
+    const QVariant v1 = data(column, Qt::DisplayRole);
+    const QVariant v2 = other.data(column, Qt::DisplayRole);
+    if (QTreeModel::canConvertToDouble(v1) && QTreeModel::canConvertToDouble(v2))
+        return v1.toDouble() < v2.toDouble();
+    return v1.toString() < v2.toString();
 }
 
 #ifndef QT_NO_DATASTREAM
@@ -2074,7 +2101,7 @@ void QTreeWidgetItemPrivate::sortChildren(int column, Qt::SortOrder order, bool
     if (climb) {
         QList<QTreeWidgetItem*>::iterator it = q->children.begin();
         for (; it != q->children.end(); ++it) {
-            //here we call the private object's method to avoid emitting 
+            //here we call the private object's method to avoid emitting
             //the layoutAboutToBeChanged and layoutChanged signals
             (*it)->d->sortChildren(column, order, climb);
         }
diff --git a/src/gui/itemviews/qtreewidget_p.h b/src/gui/itemviews/qtreewidget_p.h
index a089cf5..96f734d 100644
--- a/src/gui/itemviews/qtreewidget_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/itemviews/qtreewidget_p.h
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ public:
                              const QPair<QTreeWidgetItem*,int> &right);
     static bool itemGreaterThan(const QPair<QTreeWidgetItem*,int> &left,
                                 const QPair<QTreeWidgetItem*,int> &right);
+    static bool canConvertToDouble(const QVariant &value);
     static QList<QTreeWidgetItem*>::iterator sortedInsertionIterator(
         const QList<QTreeWidgetItem*>::iterator &begin,
         const QList<QTreeWidgetItem*>::iterator &end,