Qt Quick Examples - Drag and Drop

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, visit Building and Running an Example.

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
             }
         }

Example project @ code.qt.io