Qt Quick Examples - Drag and Drop

This is a collection of QML drag and drop examples.

Drag and Drop is a collection of small QML examples relating to the drag and drop functionality. For more information, visit the Drag and Drop page.

Running the Example

To run the example from Qt Creator, open the Welcome mode and select the example from Examples. For more information, see Qt Creator: Tutorial: Build and run.

Tiles

Tiles adds drag and drop to simple rectangles, which you can drag into a specific grid.

It has a DragTile component which uses a MouseArea to move an item when dragged:

Item {
    id: root

    required property string colorKey
    required property int modelData

    width: 64
    height: 64

    MouseArea {
        id: mouseArea

        width: 64
        height: 64
        anchors.centerIn: parent

        drag.target: tile

        onReleased: parent = tile.Drag.target !== null ? tile.Drag.target : root

        Rectangle {
            id: tile

            width: 64
            height: 64
            anchors {
                verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
            }

            color: root.colorKey

            Drag.keys: [ root.colorKey ]
            Drag.active: mouseArea.drag.active
            Drag.hotSpot.x: 32
            Drag.hotSpot.y: 32
            states: State {
                when: mouseArea.drag.active
                AnchorChanges {
                    target: tile
                    anchors {
                        verticalCenter: undefined
                        horizontalCenter: undefined
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

And a DropTile component on which the dragged tiles can be dropped:

DropArea {
    id: dragTarget

    property string colorKey

    width: 64
    height: 64
    keys: [ colorKey ]

    Rectangle {
        id: dropRectangle

        anchors.fill: parent
        color: dragTarget.containsDrag ? "grey" : dragTarget.colorKey
    }
}

The keys property of the DropArea will only allow an item to be dropped on it if it has a matching key in its Drag.keys property.

GridView Example

The GridView Example adds drag and drop to a GridView, allowing you to visually reorder the delegates without changing the underlying ListModel. It uses a DelegateModel to move a delegate item to the position of another item it is dragged over.

    model: DelegateModel {
        delegate: DropArea {
            id: delegateRoot
            required property color color

            width: 80
            height: 80

            onEntered: function(drag) {
                visualModel.items.move((drag.source as Icon).visualIndex, icon.visualIndex)
            }

            property int visualIndex: DelegateModel.itemsIndex

            Icon {
                id: icon
                dragParent: root
                visualIndex: delegateRoot.visualIndex
                color: delegateRoot.color
            }
        }

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