pyqt QTreeWidget setItemWidget dissapears after drag/drop

Question

I'm trying to keep a widget put into a QTreeWidgetItem after a reparent (drag and drop) using QTreeWidget.setItemWidget()

But the result, if you compile the following code - is that the widget inside the QTreeWidgetItem disappears. Any idea why? What code would fix this (repopulate the QTreeWidgetItem with the widget I guess?)

from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *


class InlineEditor (QWidget):
    _MUTE = 'MUTE'

    def __init__ (self, parent):
        QWidget.__init__ (self, parent)

        self.setAutoFillBackground (True)
        lo = QHBoxLayout()
        lo.setSpacing(4)

        self._cbFoo = QComboBox()
        for x in ["ABC", "DEF", "GHI", "JKL"]:
            self._cbFoo.addItem(x)

        self._leBar = QLineEdit('', self)
        lo.addWidget (self._cbFoo, 3)
        lo.addSpacing (5)
        lo.addWidget (QLabel ( 'Bar:'))
        lo.addWidget (self._leBar, 3)
        lo.addStretch (5)
        self.setLayout (lo)

class Form (QDialog):
    def __init__(self,parent=None):
        QDialog.__init__(self, parent)

        grid = QGridLayout ()
        tree = QTreeWidget ()

        # Here is the issue?
        tree.setDragDropMode(QAbstractItemView.InternalMove)

        tree.setColumnCount(3)

        for n in range (2):
            i = QTreeWidgetItem (tree) # create QTreeWidget the sub i
            i.setText (0, "first" + str (n)) # set the text of the first 0
            i.setText (1, "second")
            for m in range (2):
                j = QTreeWidgetItem(i)
                j.setText (0, "child first" + str (m))

        #b1 = QCheckBox("push me 0", tree) # this wont work w/ drag by itself either
        #tree.setItemWidget (tree.topLevelItem(0).child(1), 1, b1)

        item = InlineEditor(tree) # deal with a combination of multiple controls
        tree.setItemWidget(tree.topLevelItem(0).child(1), 1, item)

        grid.addWidget (tree)
        self.setLayout (grid)

app = QApplication ([])
form = Form ()
form.show ()
app.exec_ ()

Answer 1

I would love to know why as well, it happens to me too.

It seems the "underlying C/C++ object has been deleted" for the itemWidget. Thats what I get anyway when I try to setItemWidget() again after the widget disappears in the hope that that would fix it.

I put in an event to get called when the QTreeWidgetItem is dropped but it seems the object gets deleted as soon as it's dropped

from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *


class InlineEditor (QWidget):
    _MUTE = 'MUTE'

    def __init__ (self, parent):
        QWidget.__init__ (self, parent)

        self.setAutoFillBackground (True)
        lo = QHBoxLayout()
        lo.setSpacing(4)

        self._cbFoo = QComboBox()
        for x in ["ABC", "DEF", "GHI", "JKL"]:
            self._cbFoo.addItem(x)

        self._leBar = QLineEdit('', self)
        lo.addWidget (self._cbFoo, 3)
        lo.addSpacing (5)
        lo.addWidget (QLabel ( 'Bar:'))
        lo.addWidget (self._leBar, 3)
        lo.addStretch (5)
        self.setLayout (lo)

class Tree(QTreeWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QTreeWidget.__init__(self, parent)

        # Here is the issue?
        self.setDragDropMode(QAbstractItemView.InternalMove)
        self.installEventFilter(self)
        self.setColumnCount(3)

        for n in range (2):
            i = QTreeWidgetItem (self) # create QTreeWidget the sub i
            i.setText (0, "first" + str (n)) # set the text of the first 0
            i.setText (1, "second")
            for m in range (2):
                j = QTreeWidgetItem(i)
                j.setText (0, "child first" + str (m))

        #b1 = QCheckBox("push me 0", tree) # this wont work w/ drag by itself either
        #tree.setItemWidget (tree.topLevelItem(0).child(1), 1, b1)

        self.item = InlineEditor(self) # deal with a combination of multiple controls
        self.setItemWidget(self.topLevelItem(0).child(1), 1, self.item)

    def eventFilter(self, sender, event):
        if event.type() == QEvent.ChildRemoved:
            print self.item._cbFoo # looks like this remains
            print self.item._cbFoo.currentText() # CRASH! but the data is gone 
            #self.setItemWidget(self.topLevelItem(0).child(1), 1, self.item)
        return False


class Form (QDialog):
    def __init__(self,parent=None):
        QDialog.__init__(self, parent)

        grid = QGridLayout ()
        tree = Tree ()

        grid.addWidget (tree)
        self.setLayout (grid)

app = QApplication ([])
form = Form ()
form.show ()
app.exec_ ()

Answer 2

managed to get a relatively "working" fix in by writing my own treeDropEvent... however if someone has a more elegant solution, please feel free to share. the code below will solve anyone else's headaches for drag/drop with setItemWidgets in a tree, cheers.

from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class InlineEditor (QWidget):
    _MUTE = 'MUTE'

    def __init__ (self, parent):
        QWidget.__init__ (self, parent)

        self.setAutoFillBackground (True)
        lo = QHBoxLayout()
        lo.setSpacing(4)

        self._cbFoo = QComboBox()
        for x in ["ABC", "DEF", "GHI", "JKL"]:
            self._cbFoo.addItem(x)

        self._leBar = QLineEdit('', self)
        lo.addWidget (self._cbFoo, 3)
        lo.addSpacing (5)
        lo.addWidget (QLabel ( 'Bar:'))
        lo.addWidget (self._leBar, 3)
        lo.addStretch (5)
        self.setLayout (lo)

class Tree(QTreeWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QTreeWidget.__init__(self, parent)

        # Here is the issue?
        self.setDragDropMode(QAbstractItemView.InternalMove)
        self.installEventFilter(self)
        self.setColumnCount(3)
        self.dropEvent = self.treeDropEvent

        for n in range (2):
            i = QTreeWidgetItem (self) # create QTreeWidget the sub i
            i.setText (0, "first" + str (n)) # set the text of the first 0
            i.setText (1, "second")
            for m in range (2):
                j = QTreeWidgetItem(i)
                j.setText (0, "child first" + str (m))

        self.item = InlineEditor(self) # deal with a combination of multiple controls
        self.setItemWidget(self.topLevelItem(0).child(1), 1, self.item)

    def treeDropEvent(self, event):
        dragItem = self.currentItem()

        QTreeWidget.dropEvent(self, event)
        # rebuild widget (grabbing it doesnt seem to work from self.itemWidget?)
        self.item = InlineEditor(self) 
        self.setItemWidget(dragItem, 1, self.item)

class Form (QDialog):
    def __init__(self,parent=None):
        QDialog.__init__(self, parent)
    grid = QGridLayout ()
    tree = Tree ()
    grid.addWidget (tree)
    self.setLayout (grid)

app = QApplication ([])
form = Form ()
form.show ()
app.exec_ ()