How to drop an image onto google lens?

[BwvB]

Hi,

I would like to be able drag an image from my Qt-application (C++) onto a google lens search in a browser (firefox). Is there a way to do this?

Regards,
Bertwim

[BwvB]

@SGaist Yes, the QUrl::fromLocalFile(...) is doing the trick! Thanks for the suggestion!

[SGaist]

Hi,

The Drag and Drop chapter is a good starting point.

[BwvB]

@SGaist Sure, it is. That's what I did. When I drag and drop (in my case: a url to an image) in my own application (from a treeview to a QMDIArea) it works perfectly alright. But when dragged the same object to Google Lens, nothing happens.
In the mean time, I found that when I drag a file from a Qt FileSelectorbox to Google lens, the behaviour is as expected. So at least now I know that there is a way to do it. I;m trying to find out what the FileSelectorBox is doing differently...
If you have any hint, that would be welcome.
Regards,
Bertwim

[SGaist]

It's likely related to the mime type. Which one are you using ? Which one is that dialog using ?

[BwvB]

@SGaist
I have minimised the problem to the following.

• I create a QUrl with the absolute path to some jpg image.
• with this QUrl, I create and initialise a QMimeData object, using mimedata->setUrls(). . (code below)
• dragging this to Google Lens (Firefox browser) gives the error message: "Can't use this link. Check that your link starts with 'http://' or 'https://' to try again".
• the above error does not seam unreasonable, somehow it misses the point that it needs to upload the local file. but what can I do?
• When I open a QFileSelector in the directory of the image, so that I see the image file in the directory list, I can drag the very same file to Google Lens, and it works! I can't figure out what the QFileSelector is doing differently. If I drag the latter to e.g. the command line, it just shows the text representation of the full path.

In the override of mouseMoveEvent of my subclass of QTreeView I have the following code to create a drag object:

QMimeData* mimeData = new QMimeData; 
auto urls = new QList<QUrl>;
urls->append( QUrl( "/abspath../image.jpg" ) );
mimeData->setUrls( *urllist );

// Initialise a new drag object and proceed.
QDrag* drag = new QDrag( this );
drag->setMimeData( mimeData ); 

auto dropAction = drag->exec( Qt::CopyAction | Qt::MoveAction );

me->accept();

[SGaist]

There's no need to allocate urls on the heap. I would also use QUrl::fromLocalFile to build the URL properly.

[BwvB]

@SGaist Yes, the QUrl::fromLocalFile(...) is doing the trick! Thanks for the suggestion!

[SGaist]

Great !

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