Ok so I hacked around, and I got something working but its just that.. a hack.. can anybody give me some more tips on how to make this not use a bad hack?

thanks in advance

-john

Qt Code: 
  1. #!/usr/local/bin/python
  2.  
  3. # dragdrop.py
  4.  
  5. import sys
  6. from PyQt4 import QtGui,QtCore
  7.  
  8. class treeWidgetClass(QtGui.QTreeWidget):
  9.  
  10. 	def mimeTypes(self):
  11. 		types = QtCore.QStringList()
  12. 		types.append("text/plain")
  13. 		return types
  14.  
  15. 	def fmimeData(text):
  16. 		customMimeData = QtCore.QMimeData()
  17. 		customText = QtCore.QString()
  18. 		customMimeData.setText(customText)
  19. 		return customMimeData
  20.  
  21. 	def mousePressEvent(self, event):
  22.  
  23. 		#list = QtCore.QStringList()
  24. 		#list = self.mimeTypes()
  25. 		#for a in list:
  26. 		#	print a
  27.  
  28. 		button = event.button()
  29. 		item = self.itemAt(event.x(), event.y())
  30.  
  31. 		if item:
  32. 			seqBrowserMimeData = self.fmimeData()
  33. 			seqBrowserMimeData.setText(item.text(0))
  34. 			print item.text(0)
  35. 			# select the item we clicked
  36. 			self.setCurrentItem(item)
  37. 			if button == 1:
  38. 				print 'LEFT CLICK - DRAG'
  39. 			if button == 2:
  40. 				print 'RIGHT CLICK'
  41. 		else:
  42. 			print "select something you goober"
  43. 			pass
  44.  
  45. 	def dragEnterEvent(self, event):
  46. 		if event.mimeData().hasFormat('text/plain'):
  47. 			event.accept()
  48.  
  49. 	def dropEvent(self, event):
  50.  
  51. 		list = QtCore.QStringList()
  52. 		list = self.mimeTypes()
  53.  
  54. 		##### THIS IS A COMPLETE HACK but for now  25 characters is what I need to strip off to make the  string proper?  
  55. 		### its  putting in a data structure array somehow still 
  56.  
  57. 		text = event.mimeData().text()
  58. 		text = text[25:]
  59. 		#print "dropped"
  60. 		print (text)
  61. 		#print "here"
  62.  
  63.  
  64. class DragDrop(QtGui.QDialog):
  65. 	def __init__(self, parent=None):
  66. 		QtGui.QDialog.__init__(self, parent)
  67.  
  68. 		self.resize(280, 150)
  69. 		self.setWindowTitle('Simple Drag & Drop')
  70.  
  71. 		treeWidget = treeWidgetClass(self)
  72. 		treeWidget.setDragEnabled(True)
  73. 		treeWidget.setAcceptDrops(True)
  74. 		treeWidget.move(30, 65)
  75.  
  76. 		treeWidget2 = treeWidgetClass(self)
  77. 		treeWidget2.setDragEnabled(True)	
  78. 		treeWidget2.setAcceptDrops(True)
  79. 		treeWidget2.move(300, 65)
  80.  
  81.  
  82. 		#button = Button("Button", self)
  83. 		#button.move(170, 65)
  84. 		item = QtGui.QTreeWidgetItem(treeWidget)
  85. 		item.setText(0,QtGui.QApplication.translate("", "jhgjhgljhgk hjgjhgjk jhgjhguyuy jhjhg jhgjhgjhg  jhgjhgk  ", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
  86. 		item2 = QtGui.QTreeWidgetItem(treeWidget)
  87. 		item2.setText(0,QtGui.QApplication.translate("", "jhjhg jhgjhgjhg  jhgjhgk  ", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
  88.  
  89.  
  90. 		screen = QtGui.QDesktopWidget().screenGeometry()
  91. 		size =  self.geometry()
  92. 		self.move((screen.width()-size.width())/2,(screen.height()-size.height())/2)
  93.  
  94. app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
  95. icon = DragDrop()
  96. icon.show()
  97. app.exec_()
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