PyQT4: Drag and drop files into QListWidget

Question

I\'ve been coding a OCR book scanning thing (it renames pages by reading the page number), and have switched to a GUI from my basic CLI Python script.

I\'m using PyQ

Answer 1

The code you're using as an example seem to work fine and looks quite clean. According to your comment your list widget is not getting initialized; this should be the root cause of your issue. I've simplified your code a bit a tried it on my Ubuntu 10.04LTS and it worked fine. My code is listed below, see if it would for you also. You should be able to drag and drop a file into the list widget; once it's dropped a new item is added showing the image and image's file name.

import sys
import os
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore

class TestListView(QtGui.QListWidget):
    def __init__(self, type, parent=None):
        super(TestListView, self).__init__(parent)
        self.setAcceptDrops(True)
        self.setIconSize(QtCore.QSize(72, 72))

    def dragEnterEvent(self, event):
        if event.mimeData().hasUrls:
            event.accept()
        else:
            event.ignore()

    def dragMoveEvent(self, event):
        if event.mimeData().hasUrls:
            event.setDropAction(QtCore.Qt.CopyAction)
            event.accept()
        else:
            event.ignore()

    def dropEvent(self, event):
        if event.mimeData().hasUrls:
            event.setDropAction(QtCore.Qt.CopyAction)
            event.accept()
            links = []
            for url in event.mimeData().urls():
                links.append(str(url.toLocalFile()))
            self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("dropped"), links)
        else:
            event.ignore()

class MainForm(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(MainForm, self).__init__(parent)

        self.view = TestListView(self)
        self.connect(self.view, QtCore.SIGNAL("dropped"), self.pictureDropped)
        self.setCentralWidget(self.view)

    def pictureDropped(self, l):
        for url in l:
            if os.path.exists(url):
                print(url)                
                icon = QtGui.QIcon(url)
                pixmap = icon.pixmap(72, 72)                
                icon = QtGui.QIcon(pixmap)
                item = QtGui.QListWidgetItem(url, self.view)
                item.setIcon(icon)        
                item.setStatusTip(url)        

def main():
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    form = MainForm()
    form.show()
    app.exec_()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

hope this helps, regards