How to set an item in a QListWidget as initially highlighted?

Question

I am using QT 5.2 and Have a QListWidget witch displays a list of Strings and I want the first item (at 0) to be initially set to be highlighted. I tried the following:

mUi->listWidget->setCurrentRow(0);
    mUi->listWidget->setCurrentItem(mUi->listWidget->item(0),QItemSelectionModel::Select);
    mUi->listWidget->currentItem()->setSelected(true);
    mUi->listWidget->selectionModel()->select(mUi->listWidget->model()->index(0,0, QModelIndex()),QItemSelectionModel::Select); 

Even if the if the item is selected it is not highlighted. If ofcourse I navigate to the item using mouse (click) or keyboard (tab key) it is highlighted but I want it to be highlighted initially without using mouse or keyboard. How to do it? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You just need to set focus to the list:

if (ui->listWidget->count() > 0) {
  ui->listWidget->item(0)->setSelected(true);
}
ui->listWidget->setFocus();