Hi,
It seems I can go with the solution I described. I don't need the tree view to be focused, so I just removed the “focus rect” (if that is the name Qt people know ;)) by setting the focus policy of the tree to Qt.NoFocus. I draw the “cursor” then myself by giving a different backlog in QAbstractItemModel::data. That makes anyway sense since the cursor position is part of my domain model.
Thanks for help and inspiration!
Dan