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Bug in Qt 5.12 drag n'drop ?

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  • S skylendar

    Hi there and thx for reading and answering if you can.

    My app based on Qt5 x86_64 worked fine with qt5.11 but suddenly, the drag n'drop doesn't work anymore with qt5.12 ?

    Have you already noticed this behaviour ? Is this a bug ?

    Thx again for reading this post.

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    cawlfj
    wrote on last edited by
    #45

    @skylendar
    I found same bug in my app. change to 5.11.2 drop is ok

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    • SGaistS SGaist

      "not that different" can be a big can of worm ;)

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      cawlfj
      wrote on last edited by
      #46

      @SGaist
      i found same bug also in my app. change back 5.11 drop come back.
      windows10 qt5.12.0 QLinedit , can drag from QLineEdit , but can't drop to QLineEdit.
      Sometimes press the "ctrl" can drop to QLineEdit.

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        ModelTech
        wrote on last edited by
        #47

        I have checked the drag & drop in my app when running on Ubuntu 16.04. The drag is from a QListWidgetItem to a drop on a QGraphicsView. I appropriately overrode QGraphicsView::dropEvent (and all the drag methods of QGraphicsView). It still works in Qt5.12.0 although the willingness to accept the QMimeData constructed from the QListWidgetItem as a droppable on the QGraphicsView (visible as a change in the mouse pointer icon) seems to be less than it was with Qt5.7 that I used up to yesterday. No clue whether this is in any way related, but perhaps it brings some ideas of what causes the issue for dropping on a QLineEdit.

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        • SGaistS Offline
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          SGaist
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          wrote on last edited by
          #48

          @ModelTech can you provide a minimal compilable example that shows that change of behaviour ?

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            ReDEnergy
            wrote on last edited by ReDEnergy
            #49

            Hi. I had the same problem. Everything worked fine on Qt 5.7 then after I updated to Qt 5.12 dropping would not work at all.
            At least in my case it seems that for previous version of Qt only implementing dragEnterEvent was enough but with 5.12 I had to also override the dragMoveEvent event.
            So, basically I have this 2 things and now it works as expected. Hope it helps someone.

            void QtDropArea::dragEnterEvent(QDragEnterEvent *event)
            {
            	event->acceptProposedAction();
            }
            
            // this was added after updating to Qt 5.12
            void QtDropArea::dragMoveEvent(QDragMoveEvent *event)
            {
            	event->acceptProposedAction();
            }
            
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            • Christian EhrlicherC Offline
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              Christian Ehrlicher
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              wrote on last edited by
              #50

              @ReDEnergy said in Bug in Qt 5.12 drag n'drop ?:

              QtDropArea

              From what did you derive QtDropArea?

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                ReDEnergy
                wrote on last edited by ReDEnergy
                #51

                from the classic QWidget

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                • Christian EhrlicherC Offline
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                  Christian Ehrlicher
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                  wrote on last edited by
                  #52

                  Thx for your hint with the dragMoveEvent() reimpl. I think I can reproduce your issue and also found the corresponding commit.

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                    Christian Ehrlicher
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                    wrote on last edited by aha_1980
                    #53

                    Can you please check if you get a dragEnterEvent in the problematic case? I would guess no.
                    The problem was introduced with f8944a7f07112c85dc4f66848cabb490514cd28e which is a bugfix for QTBUG-67155.

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                      ReDEnergy
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                      #54

                      Great to hear that. So, I suppose what I did is a workaround for the moment, but at least it works.

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                      • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                        Can you please check if you get a dragEnterEvent in the problematic case? I would guess no.
                        The problem was introduced with f8944a7f07112c85dc4f66848cabb490514cd28e which is a bugfix for QTBUG-67155.

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                        aha_1980
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                        wrote on last edited by
                        #55

                        @Christian-Ehrlicher I already did some cross-links, can you create a bugreport for that issue?

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                        • Christian EhrlicherC Offline
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                          Christian Ehrlicher
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                          wrote on last edited by Christian Ehrlicher
                          #56

                          https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-72844 and https://codereview.qt-project.org/249086

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                            Christian Ehrlicher
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                            wrote on last edited by
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                            The bug will be fixed in 5.12.1

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