QStandardItem custom drag MIME

[Joel Bodenmann]

I'm desperately trying to figure out how I can set custom data MIME type and data on a QStandardItem. I would have expected that QStandardItem provides something similar to QStandardItem::setMimeData() which would allow to set the mime data (and type) for each individual item. However, that doesn't appear to be the case.

What is the expected way of achieving this? I usually write my own models inheriting from QAbstractItemModel but the code I'm working on at the moment uses QStandardItemModel. Do I have to subclass it and re-implement QStandardItemModel::mimeData() ?

[SGaist]

Hi,

AFAIR, yes that's the way to do it.

[Joel Bodenmann]

Got it working that way (no surprise there).

However, I'd like to understand why QStandardItem does not offer a setMimeData() function. Looking at the existing design of QStandardItemModel and QStandardItem it seems feasible to implement this. Is this simply not implemented because nobody ever did it or is there a technical reason for this?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@Joel-Bodenmann said in QStandardItem custom drag MIME:

However, I'd like to understand why QStandardItem does not offer a setMimeData() function.

Because noone wants to create a mime data just on suspicion for every item.