Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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A circle was created by defining a rectangle with its height equal to width, making it a square and rounding the borders to half the side length. The drag property can be used to tell MouseArea to manage a given item's position using input events flowing into this MouseArea element. We denote the item to be dragged using the target subproperty. You can use other subproperties to control the axis the item is allowed to move along or constrain the move to a given area. An important thing to remember is that the item being dragged cannot be anchored for the axis on which the drag is requested; otherwise, the item will respect the anchor and not the drag. We didn't anchor our circle item at all since we want it to be draggable ...