<![CDATA[Drag and drop - text between subwindows]]>I am starting to look into an idea to "drag and drop" highlighted text between QTextEdit objects.
Is it in general feasible in Qt?

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/139341/drag-and-drop-text-between-subwindowsRSS for NodeMon, 26 Oct 2026 19:18:42 GMTThu, 15 Sep 2022 14:08:49 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Drag and drop - text between subwindows on Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:35:10 GMT]]>@AnneRanch said in Drag and drop - text between subwindows:

very encouraging and immensely helpful.

How did it turn from very encouraging and immensely helpful to trash so quickly? :)

The example project has a main.cpp and a .pro file. So you can use it as standalone project and test the behavior.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/729024https://forum.qt.io/post/729024Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:35:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Drag and drop - text between subwindows on Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:08:12 GMT]]>I did check the example . It is put together as subproject and won't even compile. This is not a first time example does not work. Why QT is putting out such trash is unbelievable. Spare me the usual comments - you are using wrong Qt version ...

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/729020https://forum.qt.io/post/729020Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:08:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Drag and drop - text between subwindows on Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:33:22 GMT]]>@Pl45m4 Thanks - that is very encouraging and immensely helpful.
I think the main challenge will be - I am passing , using drag and drop, a text between instances of QTextEdit and only the source is active. So i simple terms - if I start the drag using mouse I will have to figure out how to activate the destination - since the mouse button has to stay down... perhaps I will need a keyboard too... space bar (?) .
My concern is how to add all these "drag and drop" classes without destroying the initial QTextEdit and MDIArea relations.
I have never done multiple inheritance, perhaps this will be a good application for that.
I already have examples cloned, so I will take a look at the example you posted.
Thanks

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/728888https://forum.qt.io/post/728888Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:33:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Drag and drop - text between subwindows on Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:11:17 GMT]]>@AnneRanch

Should be possible. Maybe you have to subclass and create your own d'n'd-QTextEdit.
Have a look at these examples.

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