I finally succeed to create this using 2 MultiPointTouchArea but I had to write drag function on touchUpdated event. Here is my code for one drag area: import QtQuick 2.0 Item{ id: joystick width: 100 height: 500 Rectangle{ id: joystickPad height: 50 width: 100 MultiPointTouchArea{ property var offset: null anchors.fill:parent minimumTouchPoints: 1 maximumTouchPoints: 1 function dragMove(point) { if (point) { var position = joystick.mapFromItem(joystickPad, point.x, point.y); /* Change y axis */ if((position.y - offset.y) < 0) { /* Do not go on top of drag area */ joystickPad.y = 0; } else { if((position.y - offset.y) > (joystick.height-joystickPad.height)) { /* Do not go below of drag area */ joystickPad.y = (joystick.height-joystickPad.height); } else { joystickPad.y = position.y - offset.y; } } } } onPressed: { var point = touchPoints[0]; offset = Qt.point(point.x, point.y); } onTouchUpdated: { var point = touchPoints[0]; dragMove(point); } onReleased: { //Reset position joystickPad.x = (joystick.width/2 - joystickPad.width/2) joystickPad.y = (joystick.height/2 - joystickPad.height/2) } } } }

@mrjj I started this topic because I did not know how to start this project. You and @SGaist advices me and gives to me the right direction where I can go. So I can now start my project. Thank you both!! I think it is now time to close this topic.

I have changed the structure, I have used a QQuickWidget with a QML inside, and now I have what I wanted. Here is my code in case anyone needs something similar main.cpp ... MovableWidget *view = new MovableWidget; view->setSource(QUrl("qrc:/Test.qml")); view->setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint); view->show(); ... Test.qml import QtQuick 2.0 Rectangle { id: myWindow width: 500; height: 500 color: "yellow" Rectangle { anchors.centerIn: parent width: 200; height: 200 color: "red" } } MovableWidget.cpp #include "movableWidget.h" #include <QMouseEvent> // ************************************************** ************************** MovableWidget::MovableWidget(QWidget *parent) : QQuickWidget(parent), m_previousPos(0,0) { installEventFilter(this); } // ************************************************** ************************** bool MovableWidget::eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event) { if (event->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonPress) { m_previousPos = QCursor:os(); } else if (event->type() == QEvent::MouseMove) { QMouseEvent *mouseEvent = static_cast<QMouseEvent*>(event); if(mouseEvent->buttons() == Qt::LeftButton) { QPoint offset = m_previousPos - QCursor:os(); m_previousPos = QCursor:os(); move(pos() - offset); } } return false; }

Hi Sounds ok to me. another signal based version of widgetAt :)

@Vagabond Heh. good work. Just as a note: you can use event filters to implement drag and drop on other widgets if no other need to subclass them. http://ynonperek.com/course/qt/event-filter2.html But for your case, subclassing QGroupBox is super.

Had a similar Issue. Was able to find a solution. Below is a generic PyQt5 example that solves the problem using right click. import sys from PyQt5.QtGui import * from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * from PyQt5.QtCore import * class Tabs(QTabWidget): def __init__(self, parent): super().__init__(parent) self.parent = parent self.setAcceptDrops(True) self.tabBar = self.tabBar() self.tabBar.setMouseTracking(True) self.indexTab = None self.setMovable(True) self.addTab(QWidget(self), 'Tab One') self.addTab(QWidget(self), 'Tab Two') def mouseMoveEvent(self, e): if e.buttons() != Qt.RightButton: return globalPos = self.mapToGlobal(e.pos()) tabBar = self.tabBar posInTab = tabBar.mapFromGlobal(globalPos) self.indexTab = tabBar.tabAt(e.pos()) tabRect = tabBar.tabRect(self.indexTab) pixmap = QPixmap(tabRect.size()) tabBar.render(pixmap,QPoint(),QRegion(tabRect)) mimeData = QMimeData() drag = QDrag(tabBar) drag.setMimeData(mimeData) drag.setPixmap(pixmap) cursor = QCursor(Qt.OpenHandCursor) drag.setHotSpot(e.pos() - posInTab) drag.setDragCursor(cursor.pixmap(),Qt.MoveAction) dropAction = drag.exec_(Qt.MoveAction) def dragEnterEvent(self, e): e.accept() if e.source().parentWidget() != self: return print(self.indexOf(self.widget(self.indexTab))) self.parent.TABINDEX = self.indexOf(self.widget(self.indexTab)) def dragLeaveEvent(self,e): e.accept() def dropEvent(self, e): print(self.parent.TABINDEX) if e.source().parentWidget() == self: return e.setDropAction(Qt.MoveAction) e.accept() counter = self.count() if counter == 0: self.addTab(e.source().parentWidget().widget(self.parent.TABINDEX),e.source().tabText(self.parent.TABINDEX)) else: self.insertTab(counter + 1 ,e.source().parentWidget().widget(self.parent.TABINDEX),e.source().tabText(self.parent.TABINDEX)) class Window(QWidget): def __init__(self): super().__init__() self.TABINDEX = 0 tabWidgetOne = Tabs(self) tabWidgetTwo = Tabs(self) layout = QHBoxLayout() self.moveWidget = None layout.addWidget(tabWidgetOne) layout.addWidget(tabWidgetTwo) self.setLayout(layout) if __name__ == '__main__': app = QApplication(sys.argv) window = Window() window.show() sys.exit(app.exec_())

@AliReza-Beytari So to enable drops to the filesystem you should add a file urls (using QMimeData::setUrls() for example). For photoshop it might be enough to set a image on the mimedata (using QMimeData::setPixmap()) Take a look at the Delayed encoding example. The interesting part here is the QMimeData::retrieveData() overload. This method gets called when a drop happens. So when a drop to the filesystem happens the mimedata requests the data and calls retrieveData(). In there you write your pixmap data to a temporary image file. For that you can use QTemporaryFile class for example. Write the data to the temporary file and return the url to the file. Mime-Type: "text/uri-list" Analog for the pixmap image. Simply return the QPixmap. Mime-Type: "image/png" Actually it could also be necessary to return the PNG binary data. I am not sure. This can be done like this: QPixmap pixmap; QByteArray data; QBuffer buffer(&data); buffer.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly); pixmap.save(&buffer, "PNG"); buffer.close(); The advantage of this approach is that you only create the drop data when necessary. Especially the temp file used for drops to the filesystem.

HI so rootItem is your "drop" widget? Is the yellow on picture rootitem or the white one where mouse is? ( A=8 ) It does look correct so a bit odd. and void dragEnterEvent(QDragEnterEvent* event) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE; should be called when u leave this small area. I assume you are 100% sure that is not called and its not just the change to while part that is failing. I can't guess from this little code what could be wrong.sorry. Just for test, could you run my editor and see it does indeed say "drag leave" when u drag from the list on the left to center. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ikra7pm161lzf56/DMDesigner.zip?dl=0

@SGaist Thanks Champion! I will try !

Well, I found solution. It is very simple, all I need is to set default drop action for my view class as Qt::MoveAction and return copy and move in the suporrtedDropActions().

@Jakob Hm, it seems I didn't refresh - you already did mark as solved - my apologies