I've created a child class of QTreeWidget that I want to be able to drag items from another tree widget too (I want to handle the insertion myself though), as well as from a QListWidget.
I've overridden the dropEvent method in my class, and it looks like the mimetype of the data I'm getting from my QTreeWidget is application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist, how can I decode this to get the items from the tree back out?
You can decode it as follows:
QByteArray encoded = qMimeData->data("application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist");
QDataStream stream(&encoded, QIODevice::ReadOnly);
while (!stream.atEnd())
{
int row, col;
QMap<int, QVariant> roleDataMap;
stream >> row >> col >> roleDataMap;
/* do something with the data */
}
The QMap<int, QVariant>
is what is returned by QAbstractItemModel::itemData(index)
for the index representing (row, col)
.
Looks like you can use QStandardItemModel to decode the data and get an item back out. Don't know if this is the best way to do it though:
model = QStandardItemModel()
model.dropMimeData(event.mimeData(), Qt.CopyAction, 0,0, QModelIndex())
Then you can use the item() method from model to retrieve the item and handle it however you want.
In PySide2 this works for me
def dropEvent(self, event):
if event.mimeData().hasFormat('application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist'):
data = event.mimeData()
source_item = QtGui.QStandardItemModel()
source_item.dropMimeData(data, QtCore.Qt.CopyAction, 0,0, QtCore.QModelIndex())
print(source_item.item(0, 0).text())