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

Running the Example

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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
    property string colorKey

    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
            anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter

            color: colorKey

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

        }
    }
}

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

DropArea {
    id: dragTarget

    property string colorKey
    property alias dropProxy: dragTarget

    width: 64; height: 64
    keys: [ colorKey ]

    Rectangle {
        id: dropRectangle

        anchors.fill: parent
        color: colorKey

        states: [
            State {
                when: dragTarget.containsDrag
                PropertyChanges {
                    target: dropRectangle
                    color: "grey"
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

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

GridView

GridView adds drag and drop to a GridView, allowing you to reorder the list. It also uses a DelegateModel to move a delegate item to the position of another item it is dragged over.

    model: DelegateModel {
        delegate: MouseArea {
            id: delegateRoot

            property int visualIndex: DelegateModel.itemsIndex

            width: 80; height: 80
            drag.target: icon

            Rectangle {
                id: icon
                width: 72; height: 72
                anchors {
                    horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter;
                    verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                }
                color: model.color
                radius: 3

                Drag.active: delegateRoot.drag.active
                Drag.source: delegateRoot
                Drag.hotSpot.x: 36
                Drag.hotSpot.y: 36

                states: [
                    State {
                        when: icon.Drag.active
                        ParentChange {
                            target: icon
                            parent: root
                        }

                        AnchorChanges {
                            target: icon;
                            anchors.horizontalCenter: undefined;
                            anchors.verticalCenter: undefined
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }

            DropArea {
                anchors { fill: parent; margins: 15 }

                onEntered: visualModel.items.move(drag.source.visualIndex, delegateRoot.visualIndex)
            }
        }

Files:

• draganddrop/draganddrop.qml
• draganddrop/tiles/DragTile.qml
• draganddrop/tiles/DropTile.qml
• draganddrop/tiles/tiles.qml
• draganddrop/views/gridview.qml
• draganddrop/main.cpp
• draganddrop/draganddrop.pro
• draganddrop/draganddrop.qmlproject
• draganddrop/draganddrop.qrc