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/*!
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    \example draganddrop/draggableicons
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    \title Draggable Icons Example
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    The Draggable Icons example shows how to drag and drop image data between widgets
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    in the same application, and between different applications.
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    \image draggableicons-example.png
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    In many situations where drag and drop is used, the user starts dragging from
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    a particular widget and drops the payload onto another widget. In this example,
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    we subclass QLabel to create labels that we use as drag sources, and place them
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    inside \l{QWidget}s that serve as both containers and drop sites.
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    In addition, when a drag and drop operation occurs, we want to send more than
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    just an image. We also want to send information about where the user clicked in
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    the image so that the user can place it precisely on the drop target. This level
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    of detail means that we must create a custom MIME type for our data.
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    \section1 DragWidget Class Definition
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    The icon widgets that we use to display icons are subclassed from QLabel:
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    \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.h 0
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    Since the QLabel class provides most of what we require for the icon, we
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    only need to reimplement the \l QWidget::mousePressEvent() to provide
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    drag and drop facilities.
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    \section1 DragWidget Class Implementation
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    The \c DragWidget constructor sets an attribute on the widget that ensures
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    that it will be deleted when it is closed:
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    \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.cpp 0
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    To enable dragging from the icon, we need to act on a mouse press event.
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    We do this by reimplementing \l QWidget::mousePressEvent() and setting up
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    a QDrag object.
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    \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.cpp 1
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    Since we will be sending pixmap data for the icon and information about the
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    user's click in the icon widget, we construct a QByteArray and package up the
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    details using a QDataStream.
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    For interoperability, drag and drop operations describe the data they contain
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    using MIME types. In Qt, we describe this data using a QMimeData object:
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    \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.cpp 2
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    We choose an unofficial MIME type for this purpose, and supply the QByteArray
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    to the MIME data object.
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    The drag and drop operation itself is handled by a QDrag object:
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    \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.cpp 3
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    Here, we pass the data to the drag object, set a pixmap that will be shown
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    alongside the cursor during the operation, and define the position of a hot
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    spot that places the position of this pixmap under the cursor.
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