On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Alan Alpert <4163654...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Mark Gaiser <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Fabien Castan <fabcas...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Qt 5.2 adds the possibility to use drag&drop from/to external applications. >>> To allows to drag an item from QML to an external application, we can't >>> simply set a target item, because we want to see this item ouside of the qml >>> window. >>> In Qt, we could set a pixmap on drag events: >>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qdrag.html#setPixmap >>> >>> I don't see something like that in QtQuick (Qt 5.2): >>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qml-qtquick-drag.html >>> >>> Is there a solution to do such thing in pure QML? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Fabien >> >> While browsing through the code (qquickdrag.cpp) i found these two >> commented lines: >> // TODO: how to handle drag image? >> // drag->setPixmap(iconPixmap); >> >> Along with that no more function for "setPixmap" that is exposed to QML. >> That makes me fear that the setPixmap property is not there anymore. >> >> Odd, since it would be an API break which i can't really imagine from Qt. >> >> I hope someone else more knowledgeable in this area can chime in? > > Use of direct QPixmaps in QML is discouraged, because there's no real > way to manage the memory of the pointer. If there were a QObject or > QJSValue wrapper around QPixmap then a setPixmap could be added, > similar to the setPixmap in QDrag (although not actually accepting a > QPixmap type). > > So without a good solution handy, that part has been left "for later".
Alan, would it be possible to use a Image{...} item as "pixmap"? Yes, right now it's not possible, but just as an idea for a workable implementation. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development