diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2e87edd7..9582fb36 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ examples/windowsmanifest/windowsmanifest
 examples/uidesigner/uidesigner
 examples/trivialwizard6/trivialwizard6
 examples/subclass/subclass
+examples/modelview/modelview
 examples/libraries/extras-scintillaedit/extras-scintillaedit
 examples/libraries/qt-multimedia/qt-multimedia
 examples/libraries/qt-network/qt-network
diff --git a/examples/modelview/main.go b/examples/modelview/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..557f3493
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/modelview/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/mappu/miqt/qt"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	qt.NewQApplication(os.Args)
+
+	model := qt.NewQAbstractListModel()
+
+	model.OnRowCount(func(parent *qt.QModelIndex) int {
+		return 1000
+	})
+
+	model.OnData(func(idx *qt.QModelIndex, role int) *qt.QVariant {
+		if !idx.IsValid() {
+			return qt.NewQVariant()
+		}
+
+		switch qt.ItemDataRole(role) {
+		case qt.DisplayRole:
+			return qt.NewQVariant14(fmt.Sprintf("this is row %d", idx.Row()))
+
+		default:
+			return qt.NewQVariant()
+		}
+	})
+
+	v := qt.NewQListView2()
+	v.SetModel(model.QAbstractItemModel)
+	v.Show()
+
+	qt.QApplication_Exec()
+}