How to decode “application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist” in Qt for drag and drop?

Question

I\'ve created a child class of QTreeWidget that I want to be able to drag items from another tree widget too (I want to handle the insertion myself though), as well as from

Answer 1

Looks like you can use QStandardItemModel to decode the data and get an item back out. Don't know if this is the best way to do it though:

  model = QStandardItemModel()
  model.dropMimeData(event.mimeData(), Qt.CopyAction, 0,0, QModelIndex())

Then you can use the item() method from model to retrieve the item and handle it however you want.