Drag and drop image from application to windows explorer

AliReza Beytari

Hi guys!
There is a QLabel on my ui form which is as an image (I set "pixmap" property). So now, I want to let the use to drag and drop this image to Windows Explorer and shop graphic application (like Photoshop). How to do that?!

jsulm

Did you read http://doc.qt.io/qt-5.6/dnd.html ?

mrjj

HI
and for
"shop graphic application"
you can use
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdesktopservices.html

and openUrl

"If the URL is a reference to a local file (i.e., the URL scheme is "file") then it will be opened with a suitable application instead of a Web browser."

That will open the app user has for the image type.

raven-worx

@AliReza-Beytari

So to enable drops to the filesystem you should add a file urls (using QMimeData::setUrls() for example).
For photoshop it might be enough to set a image on the mimedata (using QMimeData::setPixmap())

Take a look at the Delayed encoding example.

The interesting part here is the QMimeData::retrieveData() overload. This method gets called when a drop happens.

So when a drop to the filesystem happens the mimedata requests the data and calls retrieveData(). In there you write your pixmap data to a temporary image file. For that you can use QTemporaryFile class for example. Write the data to the temporary file and return the url to the file. Mime-Type: "text/uri-list"

Analog for the pixmap image. Simply return the QPixmap. Mime-Type: "image/png"
Actually it could also be necessary to return the PNG binary data. I am not sure. This can be done like this:

QPixmap pixmap;
QByteArray data;
QBuffer buffer(&data);
buffer.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
pixmap.save(&buffer, "PNG");
buffer.close();

The advantage of this approach is that you only create the drop data when necessary. Especially the temp file used for drops to the filesystem.