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  2. QTCREATORBUG-11703

Visual element selector on QtC Quick Designer is not intuitive (Z-order problems)

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      When using the designer and dragging a single element sometimes the clicked element is selected, sometimes not.

      Consider the following code:

      import QtQuick 2.2

Rectangle {
    width: 360
    height: 360
    color: "transparent"
    Text {
        x: 158
        y: 163
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        text: "Hello World"
        anchors.verticalCenterOffset: -30
        anchors.horizontalCenterOffset: -13
    }
    MouseArea {
        anchors.fill: parent
        onClicked: {
            Qt.quit();
        }

        TextEdit {
            id: textEdit1
            x: 160
            y: 225
            width: 80
            height: 20
            text: qsTr("Text Edit")
            font.pixelSize: 12
        }
    }

    Text {
        x: 158
        y: 288
        text: "Hello World 2"
        anchors.verticalCenterOffset: 95
        anchors.horizontalCenterOffset: -9
        anchors.centerIn: parent
    }
}

      Try the visual designer, try:

      1. Hover, drag "Hello World 2". Works.
      2. Hover, drag "Text Edit". Works.
      3. Hover "Hello World", doesn't hover.
      Drag "Hello World", doesn't work, it instead selects the MouseArea
      Try again, it will drag "Text Edit" along with the MouseArea. Really unintuitive.

      Expected Behavior: To drag the smallest pointed element, this will give precision to the drag-drop process as bigger elements can be dragged from other "empty" places. As an alternative have a better clue about what's to be dragged.

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