How to drag an item outside a ListView in QML - qt

Question

I am developing a QML application which basically contains two ListView. I would like to copy a QML item from one ListView to another. I tried to handle this by setting Drag property in the delegate but the item cannot go outside the view when I drag the item, I think the Flickable container handles mouse events.
So, I want to try the following:
create a mousearea which overlaps the to ListView
create a new object by calling **createComponent() / createObject()**
reparent this object to the mousearea
handle mouse events in the mousearea till drop
This solution seems to me a little complicated, so do you have a better way to achieve this ?
This was a bad idea and too much complicated. I think I got a way to achieve this:
each delegate of the ListView has a hidden Item which can be dragged,
as my ListView are in a reusable component, I use a property to pass a higher item (a Rectangle here and NOT a **MouseArea**) which can be used as parent for dragged items,
the higher item contains the two ListView (and maybe more in the future),
when the drag begins, the item is set to visible and reparented using a **State**
So, I missed the point that set the parent should solve my problem.

Answer 1

Next code is just an idea, but the key is to have a MouseArea inside a delegate for the first ListView so the user can drag the items and drop them into a DropArea which belongs to the second ListView.
In this example, model is very simple, just a number. And when the item is dropped, it is removed from the first ListView:
listView.model.remove(listView.dragItemIndex)
Just remove that line of code to copy the item instead of removing.
main.qml
import QtQuick 2.5
import QtQuick.Window 2.2
Window {
visible: true
width: 600
height: 600
Rectangle {
id: root
width: 400
height: 400
ListView {
id: listView
width: parent.width / 2
height: parent.height
property int dragItemIndex: -1
model: ListModel {
Component.onCompleted: {
for (var i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
append({value: i});
}
}
}
delegate: Item {
id: delegateItem
width: listView.width
height: 50
Rectangle {
id: dragRect
width: listView.width
height: 50
anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
color: "salmon"
border.color: Qt.darker(color)
Text {
anchors.centerIn: parent
text: modelData
}
MouseArea {
id: mouseArea
anchors.fill: parent
drag.target: dragRect
drag.onActiveChanged: {
if (mouseArea.drag.active) {
listView.dragItemIndex = index;
}
dragRect.Drag.drop();
}
}
states: [
State {
when: dragRect.Drag.active
ParentChange {
target: dragRect
parent: root
}
AnchorChanges {
target: dragRect
anchors.horizontalCenter: undefined
anchors.verticalCenter: undefined
}
}
]
Drag.active: mouseArea.drag.active
Drag.hotSpot.x: dragRect.width / 2
Drag.hotSpot.y: dragRect.height / 2
}
}
}
ListView {
id: listView2
width: parent.width / 2
height: parent.height
anchors.right: parent.right
property int dragItemIndex: -1
DropArea {
id: dropArea
anchors.fill: parent
onDropped: {
listView2.model.append(listView.model.get(listView.dragItemIndex))
listView.model.remove(listView.dragItemIndex)
listView.dragItemIndex = -1;
}
}
model: ListModel {
Component.onCompleted: {
for (var i = 0; i < 1; ++i) {
append({value: i});
}
}
}
delegate: Item {
id: delegateItem2
width: listView2.width
height: 50
Rectangle {
id: dragRect2
width: listView2.width
height: 50
anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
color: "salmon"
border.color: Qt.darker(color)
Text {
anchors.centerIn: parent
text: modelData
}
}
}
}
}
}