diff -r dee5afe5301f -r 3f74d0d4af4c doc/src/examples/draggableicons.qdoc --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/src/examples/draggableicons.qdoc Thu Apr 08 14:19:33 2010 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +/**************************************************************************** +** +** Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). +** All rights reserved. +** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com) +** +** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit. +** +** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$ +** No Commercial Usage +** This file contains pre-release code and may not be distributed. +** You may use this file in accordance with the terms and conditions +** contained in the Technology Preview License Agreement accompanying +** this package. +** +** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage +** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser +** General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software +** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the +** packaging of this file. Please review the following information to +** ensure the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 requirements +** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html. +** +** In addition, as a special exception, Nokia gives you certain additional +** rights. These rights are described in the Nokia Qt LGPL Exception +** version 1.1, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package. +** +** If you have questions regarding the use of this file, please contact +** Nokia at qt-info@nokia.com. +** +** +** +** +** +** +** +** +** $QT_END_LICENSE$ +** +****************************************************************************/ + +/*! + \example draganddrop/draggableicons + \title Draggable Icons Example + + The Draggable Icons example shows how to drag and drop image data between widgets + in the same application, and between different applications. + + \image draggableicons-example.png + + In many situations where drag and drop is used, the user starts dragging from + a particular widget and drops the payload onto another widget. In this example, + we subclass QLabel to create labels that we use as drag sources, and place them + inside \l{QWidget}s that serve as both containers and drop sites. + + In addition, when a drag and drop operation occurs, we want to send more than + just an image. We also want to send information about where the user clicked in + the image so that the user can place it precisely on the drop target. This level + of detail means that we must create a custom MIME type for our data. + + \section1 DragWidget Class Definition + + The icon widgets that we use to display icons are subclassed from QLabel: + + \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.h 0 + + Since the QLabel class provides most of what we require for the icon, we + only need to reimplement the \l QWidget::mousePressEvent() to provide + drag and drop facilities. + + \section1 DragWidget Class Implementation + + The \c DragWidget constructor sets an attribute on the widget that ensures + that it will be deleted when it is closed: + + \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.cpp 0 + + To enable dragging from the icon, we need to act on a mouse press event. + We do this by reimplementing \l QWidget::mousePressEvent() and setting up + a QDrag object. + + \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.cpp 1 + + Since we will be sending pixmap data for the icon and information about the + user's click in the icon widget, we construct a QByteArray and package up the + details using a QDataStream. + + For interoperability, drag and drop operations describe the data they contain + using MIME types. In Qt, we describe this data using a QMimeData object: + + \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.cpp 2 + + We choose an unofficial MIME type for this purpose, and supply the QByteArray + to the MIME data object. + + The drag and drop operation itself is handled by a QDrag object: + + \snippet examples/draganddrop/draggableicons/dragwidget.cpp 3 + + Here, we pass the data to the drag object, set a pixmap that will be shown + alongside the cursor during the operation, and define the position of a hot + spot that places the position of this pixmap under the cursor. + +*/