Question

I have a table view with the following selection settings:

setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView::SelectRows);
setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView::ExtendedSelection);

This way I can select several rows by clicking and hovering left mouse button.

However this behavior conflicts with dragging and dropping, that’s what we see for example in Windows Explorer.

I want to allow users to select rows with right mouse button, and drag’n’drop them with their left mouse button (like in Total Commander).

How can I do that?

Answer 1

If you haven’t already, subclass whatever built-in table view you are using (probably QTableView), and reimplement mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent* event) and mouseReleaseEvent(QMouseEvent* event) to modify the current selection.