What’s wrong with the existing QTreeWidgetItem::parent() method?

Yes…I suppose I worded my question incorrectly, but thank you.

I meant how can I return the string of the parent in C++ as that method returns a QTreeWidgetItem.

treeWidgetItem->parent()->text() ?

:) Thanks, DerManu again!

I tried:

treeWidgetItem->parent()->text(column)

Works!!

When dereferencing a pointer, it is wise to check that the pointer is valid first. In your case, the result of parent() may be 0, and then the ->text(column) call would cause a crash.

Thank you, Andre. I also noticed that it would crash if the item was the uppermost item & had no parent.

I added this check to my c++ code (might be useful for anyone who comes across this in the future):

Are you sure this case isn’t covered by what Andre said? I would expect parent() to simply return 0 on top level items (but I haven’t checked that).