Implementing drag and drop for existing widget

[franz]

Have a look at the QWidget documentation, especially the part about the acceptDrops property. It should give you something to work with.

[dhjdhj]

Appreciate the response. I saw all that before I posted .... it wasn't particularly informative. If you have a pointer to an actual example where a widget like QLineEdit dropped into a layout inside a MainWindow in QtCreator can be made to respond to drops without subclassing, I'd love to see it.

[franz]

I don't have the possibility to test atm, but it is very likely that if you setAcceptDrops(true); then QLineEdit should accept them and display anything that is reasonably convertible to QString.

[dhjdhj]

That may be but how is the application notified that a drop has happened? I don't want to poll the widget.

[franz]

Look for the textChanged(), textEdited() and editingFinished() signals that QLineEdit has.