[PyQt] Pulling Abstract Item Data out of MimeData from Drag and Drop

[Marc Nations]

Howdy,

I'm a PyQt newb but fairly experienced with Python. So far I'm very
impressed with PyQt and have been able to get quite a sophisticated app up
and running in a short period of time. However I've hit a road block that so
far I have not been able to figure out.

I am using PyQt4 (Qt 4.4.3 with Python 2.6) on Windows XP. I am trying to
drag treeWidget info from one widget to another. The target widget will
likely be a modified tree widget as I need to combine a tree with a table to
get the proper data mix I need.

My first attempt was simply doing this:


> itemData =
> event.mimeData().retrieveData("application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist",
> QtCore.QVariant.List)


However that apparently accessed a protected C++ function which quickly
threw an exception.

So then I tried to pull serialized data out using the data() function which
returned an empty set. Then I tried to pull data out using the items()
function passing in the mimeData object. Here is an example that I used to
try and get this working with another widget type.


> class ListBoxDnD(QListWidget):
> def __init__(self, parent):
> QListWidget.__init__(self, parent)
> self.setDragEnabled(True)
> self.setAcceptDrops(True)
> ...
>
> def dropEvent(self, e):
> print self.items(e.mimeData())


This also returned an empty set. I thought if anything should translate the
data for me, this should do it. I know the data is there because I can see
the drag and drop working as data items are being correctly added to the
target widget. However the same mimeData is returning no data when I try to
access it directly. I can't figure that out.

I was able to find a work-around by overriding the drop function and just
grabbing the selected items from the source widget directly. This actually
works a little better than the default drag/drop behavior because I need the
selected tree items plus all the child items with a little extra data pulled
from a database. However at some point I may need to use the MimeData
functionality as it was originally intended, so hopefully someone will know
how to get this to work correctly.

Thanks ahead of time,
Marc
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