Drag and Drop to desktop or file manager

[fcarney]

This one is kinda fun. I currently have drag from the desktop/file manager working as my DropArea gets a url for me to use. Now I am trying to detect the drop area outside of the application.

                                        Drag.active: mouseArea.drag.active
                                        Drag.hotSpot.x: 0
                                        Drag.hotSpot.y: 0
                                        Drag.mimeData: { "text/uri-list": fileUrl }
                                        Drag.supportedActions: Qt.CopyAction
                                        Drag.dragType: Drag.Automatic
                                        Drag.onDragStarted: {
                                        }
                                        Drag.onDragFinished: {
                                            
                                            if(dropAction === Qt.CopyAction){
                                                console.log("drag copy")
                                            }
                                        }

I have 2 problems.

• How do I detect if this landed in a DropArea or outside the app?
• How do I detect where it dropped outside the app? (there is no DropArea for this)

In the above code I see the "drag copy" message get printed as expected when dropping outside the app. I cannot see anything in the docs to indicate how to get the drop area/url that I dropped to outside the app. Is there a global drop area or something?

[Sanderv]

Replying here just because it's the first hit on google for Drag.Automatic: there is an answer to this question here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24532317/new-drag-and-drop-mechanism-does-not-work-as-expected-in-qt-quick-qt-5-3. In short, you should replace

Drag.active: mouseArea.drag.active

by

property bool dragActive: mouseArea.drag.active

onDragActiveChanged: {
    if (dragActive) {
        Drag.start();
    } else {
        Drag.drop();
    }
}

More details in the SO post, apparently you can see the different code flows in the QQuickDrag code. Note that Drag.Automatic does work as expected when you use a DragHandler, just not when you use a MouseArea.