Qt: best way to delegate a drag and drop to children

Question

I'm using drag and drop on QWidget, I have reimplemented dragEnterEvent, dragLeaveEvent, dragMoveEvent and dropEvent, and that works well.

In my QWidget, I have other QWidget children, and I want them to manage drag and drop too. The issue is my parent QWidget catch the dnd events, so my children don't get it. What is the best way to say "when you are above a child widget, the child get the dnd events" ?

Thanks

Edit:

my widgets looks like this:

----------------------------------------
|            Parent Widget             |
|       ------------------             |
|       |  Child Widget  |             |
|       |                |             |
|       ------------------             |
|                                      |
----------------------------------------

my parent widget and child widget are of the same class.

The code is quite basic, it's similar to this:

DnDWidget::DnDWidget(QWidget* parent)
    : QWidget(parent)
{
    setAcceptDrops(true);
}

void DnDWidget::dragEnterEvent (QDragEnterEvent* event )
{
    qDebug() << "dragEnterEvent";
    if (event->mimeData()->hasFormat("foo/bar"))
        event->acceptProposedAction();
}

void DnDWidget::dragMoveEvent (QDragMoveEvent* event )
{
    qDebug() << "dragMoveEvent";
    //do visual feedback stuff
}

the dragEnterEvent of my child is never called.

Kaleb Pederson Kaleb Pederson · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-26T20:47:21

From the drag-and-drop documentation:

To be able to receive media dropped on a widget, call setAcceptDrops(true) for the widget, and reimplement the dragEnterEvent() and dropEvent() event handler functions.

Here's the quick summary:

The child should call setAcceptDrops(true).
The child should reimplement the dragEnterEvent and accept its proposed action
The child should reimplement the dropEvent and accept its proposed action.

If any of the above are not true then the parent will have a chance to handle the drop.

Qt: best way to delegate a drag and drop to children

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