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# Compatibility Members for QDropEvent

The following class members are part of the Qt 3 compatibility layer. They are provided to help you port old code to Qt 4. We strongly advise against using them in new code.

QDropEvent class reference

### Public Types

- enum Action { Copy, Link, Move, Private, UserAction }

### Public Functions

- void accept ( bool y )
- void acceptAction ( bool y = true )
- Action action () const
- virtual QByteArray encodedData ( const char * format ) const
- virtual const char * format ( int n = 0 ) const
- virtual bool provides ( const char * mimeType ) const
- void setPoint ( const QPoint & point )

## Member Type Documentation

### enum QDropEvent::Action

When a drag and drop action is completed, the target is expected to perform an action on the data provided by the source. This will be one of the following:

`QDropEvent::Copy` | The default action. The source simply uses the data provided in the operation.
`QDropEvent::Link` | The source should somehow create a link to the location specified by the data.
`QDropEvent::Move` | The source should somehow move the object from the location specified by the data to a new location.
`QDropEvent::Private` | The target has special knowledge of the MIME type, which the source should respond to in a similar way to a Copy.
`QDropEvent::UserAction` | The source and target can co-operate using special actions. This feature is not currently supported.

The Link and Move actions only makes sense if the data is a reference, for example, text/uri-list file lists (see QUriDrag).

## Member Function Documentation

### void QDropEvent::accept ( bool y )

This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.

Call this function to indicate whether the event provided data that your widget processed. Set y to true (the default) if your widget could process the data, otherwise set y to false. To get the data, use mimeData().

See also acceptAction() and QMimeData.

### void QDropEvent::acceptAction ( bool y = true )

Call this to indicate that the action described by action() is accepted (i.e. if y is true, which is the default), not merely the default copy action. If you call acceptAction(true), there is no need to also call accept(true).

### Action QDropEvent::action () const

Returns the Action that the target is expected to perform on the data. If your application understands the action and can process the supplied data, call acceptAction(); if your application can process the supplied data but can only perform the Copy action, call accept().

### QByteArray QDropEvent::encodedData ( const char * format ) const `[virtual]`

Returns a byte array containing the drag's data, in format.

data() normally needs to get the data from the drag source, which is potentially very slow, so it's advisable to call this function only if you're sure that you will need the data in that particular format.

The resulting data will have a size of 0 if the format was not available.

Reimplemented from QMimeSource.

See also format() and QByteArray::size().

### const char * QDropEvent::format ( int n = 0 ) const `[virtual]`

Returns a string describing one of the available data types for this drag. Common examples are "text/plain" and "image/gif". If n is less than zero or greater than the number of available data types, format() returns 0.

This function is provided mainly for debugging. Most drop targets will use provides().

Reimplemented from QMimeSource.

See also data() and provides().

### bool QDropEvent::provides ( const char * mimeType ) const `[virtual]`

Returns true if this event provides format mimeType; otherwise returns false.

Reimplemented from QMimeSource.

See also data().

### void QDropEvent::setPoint ( const QPoint & point )

Sets the drop to happen at the given point. You do not normally need to use this as it will be set internally before your widget receives the drop event.