Drag and Dropping items in QTreeView

[wysota]

If the event propagates from the view to the parent widget, it's coordinates are mapped to the coordinates of the parent widget whereas if you call any of the view's methods (like indexAt) it expects the coordinates to be in either the view's or the view's viewport (depending on the method) coordinate space. So you first have to map those coordinates using the family of mapTo*/mapFrom* methods.

And with all do respect to your C++ skills think if exposing the internal representation of the tree and handling internal affairs of the tree in some external place (like the MainWindow class) is a good design decision of a skilled C++ developer.

[jshafferman]

And with all do respect to your C++ skills think if exposing the internal representation of the tree and handling internal affairs of the tree in some external place (like the MainWindow class) is a good design decision of a skilled C++ developer.

I am very new to Qt Programming and this is my first professional experience with Qt GUI programming (First programming job period to be exact). I work for a very small company so I pretty much have had to learn Qt on the fly and so that is why the code is pretty rough and my understanding of Qt GUI programming isn't the greatest. What would be a better design approach? Thanks for any help and keep the criticism as it is the only way I will get better.

[wysota]

This was a C++ related comment not a Qt related one. I would definitely try to handle the drag&drop mechanism in the view object. And would definitely get rid of the getItem() method in the tree.