[Eric] Bugs in latest eric4 snapshot

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Donnerstag, 5. April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 04.04.07 14:09:16, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 04.04.07 02:14:05, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > just updated to python2.5 and latest snapshots of pyqt4/sip/eric4
> > > (20070402) and trying to start it I get:
> > >
> > > An unhandled exception occurred. Please report the problem using the
> > > error reporting dialog or via email to <eric4-bugs at die-offenbachs.de>.
> > > A log has been written to "/home/andreas/.eric4/eric4_error.log".
> >
> > This seems to be a serious bug in BrowserModel.py, it created indices
> > using createIndex( row, column, item ) and later on it uses indices that
> > are given to it (for example in the item() function) to retrieve the
> > item from a dict. This can't work, using createIndex() will set the
> > internalPointer() of that index, but internalId() will return some
> > "arbitrary" value (i.e. -1.....). So BrowserModel.py needs to be fixed
> > to be consistent, either always use createIndex(row,col,id(item)) or
> > always use internalPointer() instead of internalId().
>
> Ok, I talked to Phil on the pyqt list and it seems internalId() is not
> reliable in Python due to the fact that in Python id() uses a long,
> while in C++ createIndex uses a quint32 and internalId in C++ uses a
> quint64 (which is probably a bug anyway). So I created a patch which
> fixes BrowserModel and unless I'm mistaken also ProjectBrowserModel, by
> using internalPointer and the object-overload of createIndex together
> with a list of objects instead of a dict.
>
> Andreas

Hi,

the problem you observed could explain some non reproducable crashes I have 
over here. Andreas, is your patch complete and working on your side? If so, 
I'd include it in the next snapshot.

Detlev
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