[PyKDE] Using SIP to wrap python objects

[Rob Knapp]

On Friday 13 June 2003 04:21 am, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Friday 13 June 2003 12:31 am, Rob Knapp wrote:
> > I've found myself in a position where I need to present a python object
> > to a C++ object, and it needs to look like a C++ object.  The target
> > application knows nothing of python.
>
> What C++ object does it need to look like?

It needs to be a QObject, more specifically we want it to inherit from QWidget 
...which is why SIP looks like such a good match.

> > Would it be possible to create an object using SIP that I can inherit
> > from and use the SIP api to convert into a CppPointer?
>
> If you have a C++ ctor for the object then that's exactly what SIP does, so
> maybe what you want to do is more complicated than your are implying?

So, if I inherit a C++ object from QWidget and write a sip binding, then I'm 
set.  That's what I thought, but what I was hoping for was some way to 
automatically generate this "in between" object.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

Let's say I need to add some slots to QWidget and a couple of methods, I then 
need to embed this on a dialog box made by someone else in C++.  That dialog 
box needs access to these additional methods and slots.