First flight

I went paragliding again last week, to finish my Elementary Pilot course. I had my first solo flight from a height of 45m on 24th Dec 2008. It was an exhilarating feeling, although short. After 3 days of solo top to bottoms, I now have 15 min of total air time. I'll put up the pictures soon. The sight is Shinde Wadi, around 125km from Mumbai.






I also had great fun at the Native Place, home to Nirvana Adventures. Hoping to go back in May and make progress towards Club Pilot.

Filtering QTreeView

While working on my newest project, I had a miserable time figuring out how to filter sub-items in QTreeView and its associated models (like in kopete/pidgin). The first thing to do is to use QSortFilterProxy as a middleman. The problem is that QSortFilterProxy will only search top level tree nodes.
The way to implement custom filters is to subclass QSortFilterProxy and reimplement filterAcceptsRow(). But I couldn't figure out any way to quickly access sub elements using QModelIndex, nor could I find anything on the 'net. So after quite a lot of fiddling around, I managed to get this, which works. So to save someone else some time, here is the code

bool MemberFilter::filterAcceptsRow(int sourceRow, const QModelIndex& sourceParent) const
{
    if( sourceParent.isValid() && sourceModel()->data(sourceParent).toString().contains(filterRegExp()) ) return true;

    QString data = sourceModel()->data(sourceModel()->index(sourceRow, 0, sourceParent)).toString();

    bool ret = data.contains(filterRegExp());

    QModelIndex subIndex = sourceModel()->index(sourceRow, 0, sourceParent);
    if( subIndex.isValid() )
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < sourceModel()->rowCount(subIndex); ++i)
        {
            ret = ret || filterAcceptsRow(i, subIndex);
        }
    }
    return ret;
}

On a side note, this has been a post after a long long time. This is because I've decided only to post important things or code related stuff. Right now I finished one semester of college, and will be home for a month.