title: how to know which item is clicked in a QML Listview using a QAbstractListModel subclass as listmodel
body: <p>i am using a QAbstractListModel subclass in a listview. And i want to be able to generate a new listmodel that is passed to QML through c++ based on which item was clicked.</p>
  
  <p>what is the method to implement to able to tell which item was clicked in the list?</p>
  
  <p>i have searched the web quite a bit but i cannot seem to find the best way to do it.</p>
  
  <p>this code creates a grouplist that is shown as toplevel and it has a nested list that show beneath each item in the grouplist. The nested list obviously shows the children of the group.. so i need a way to get to the object that is being clicked so that i can use it in the back-end to generate new lists of its children.</p>
  
  <p>the code is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import QtQuick 2.4
  import QtQuick.Window 2.2
  //import ListMode 1.0
  
  Rectangle {
      height: 250
      width: 140
      color: "pink"
  
      //property var aNum: 0
  
      Component {
          id: folderDelegate
  
          Item {
              width: 140
              height: col2.childrenRect.height
  
              Column {
                  id: col2
                  anchors.left: parent.left
                  anchors.right: parent.right
  
  
                  Rectangle {
                      height: 20
                      width: parent.width
                      border.color: "black"
  
                      MouseArea {
                          anchors.fill: parent
                          onClicked: console.log(folderlist.contentItem) &lt;&lt;== this is not enough
                      }
  
                      Text {
                          anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
                          anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                          id: name1
                          text: model.Name
                      }
                  }
              }
          }
      }
  
      ListView {
          id: outer
          model: myModel
          delegate: groupsDelegate
          anchors.fill: parent
      }
  
      Component {
          id: groupsDelegate
  
          Item {
              width: 140
              height: col.childrenRect.height
  
              Column {
                  id: col
                  anchors.left: parent.left
                  anchors.right: parent.right
  
                  Text {
                      anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
                      id: t1
                      font.bold: true
                      font.underline: true
                      font.pointSize: 9
                      text: model.Name
                  }
  
                  ListView {
                      id: folderlist
                      model: treemodel.lists[treemodel.modIndex]
                      delegate: folderDelegate
                      contentHeight: contentItem.childrenRect.height
                      height: childrenRect.height
                      anchors.left: parent.left
                      anchors.right: parent.right
                      clip: true
                  }
              }
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>instead of only getting the name of the item being clicked i would like to be able to get the actual object because i need to extract more data from the object to correctly identify the new children.</p>
  
  <p>if you guys could help me out, i would appreciate it very much!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>