Hide the highlight of a ListView while scrolling

Question

I am building a Qt5 application based on Qt-Quick 2 for the UI. I have an issue while displaying a ListView with an highlight component. When I scroll the ListView the highl

Answer 1

As reported by the documentation:

Note: Views do not enable clip automatically. If the view is not clipped by another item or the screen, it will be necessary to set clip: true in order to have the out of view items clipped nicely.

Hence, what you are experiencing is a common behaviour and you should either 1) clip the view via other Items (e.g. a header Rectangle and a footer Rectangle with z:infinite or simply set the clip property to true, i.e.

ListView{
   //...
   clip:true
   //...
}

Clipping has some perfomance disavantages which can greatly affect the application as it grows. Hence, its usage, especially outside the views scenario, should be evaluated carefully.