Listing your albums with AlbumListWidget

This widget must offer a way to create a new album and display existing ones. Selecting an album must also trigger an event that will be used by other widgets to display the proper data. The AlbumListWidget component is the simplest widget in this project using the Qt View mechanism. Take the time to fully understand AlbumListWidget before jumping to the next widget.

The following screenshot shows the Form Editor view of the file, AlbumListWidget.ui:

The layout is very simple. The components are described as follows:

• The AlbumListWidget component uses a vertical layout to display the Create button above the list
• The frame component contains an attractive button
• The createAlbumButton component handles album-creation
• The albumList component displays the album list

You should recognize most of the types used here. Let's talk about the real new one: QListView. As we already saw in the previous chapter, Qt provides a Model/View architecture. This system relies...