[PyKDE] QCanvasItem constructor

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Phil Thompson wrote:

> Jesper Eskilson wrote:
> > 
> > Philippe Fremy <fremy at yalbi.com>(by way of Philippe Fremy <fremy at yalbi.com>) writes:
> > 
> > > The Qt doc states that one should not inherit from QCanvasItem, so this
> > > it isn't a bug and doesn't require C++ hacking knowledge :-)
> > >
> > > "Note that you cannot easily subclass QCanvasItem yourself - the API is too
> > > low-level. Instead, you should subclass QCanvasPolygonalItem, or perhaps
> > > QCanvasRectangle or QCanvasSprite."
> > 
> > "should not" is different from "cannot easily".
> 
> Correct - and Hannes Sixt pointed out to me privately that my
> explaination was wrong (or complete bollocks as we say in England). It
> seems I could fix SIP to get around this problem - but it's not high on
> the list of priorities given this is the only example I know of in the
> whole of Qt and Qt (at the very least) doesn't encourage you to
> sub-class.
> 

And it was quite possible to code around it - what I wanted to have,
really, was a QCanvasText that allowed newlines; I've simulated that
now using a set of QCanvasTextItems.