[Qt-creator] Drag&Drop in Qt Creator

[Poenitz Andre]

Hi.

Jochen Becher wrote:
> currently I am developing a new Qt Creator plug-in for some kind of
> structural modeling (very tiny sub-set of UML). I would like to
> integrate the plug-in smoothly: it should be possible to drag project
> explorer nodes or class-view nodes to a diagram or the model tree to
> create new model elements (packages, components and classes).
> 
> Currently all the trees and lists do not support drag&drop. As a test I
> enhanced ProjectExplorer::FlatModel and ProjectExplorer::ProjectTreeView
> to support drag&drop and it works fine.
> 
> Now I wonder if there is any interest to implement a generic concept of
> drag&drop in Qt Creator? That means one should define an API where
> plug-ins may ask for drag&drop support (no need to make items draggable
> if there are no consumers enabled) and define a list of mime-types and
> QMimeData contents that are dragged from the different trees and lists.

Generally speaking, I think this would be a very welcome addition. 
There are a lot of places that currently operate with cut&paste only
that might benefit from drag&drop.

Andre'