[PyKDE] Help -- QObject.connect() fails -- WId not recognized.

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 23 August 2004 8:08 pm, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On Monday 23 August 2004 10:03, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> > On Monday 23 August 2004 17:41, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> > > I don't understand this error:
> > >
> > >     kwinmod= KWinModule()
> > >     def onActiveWindowChanged(wid):
> > >         print "onActiveWindowChanged" + str(wid)
> > >     QObject.connect(kwinmod, SIGNAL("activeWindowChanged(WId)"),
> > >                   onActiveWindowChanged)
> > >
> > > The output is:
> > >
> > >  File "/dat/pub/src/by-mau/logicaldesktop/LogicalDesktop/main.py", line
> > > 1357, in run QObject.connect(kwinmod,
> > > SIGNAL("activeWindowChanged(WId)"), onActiveWindowChanged)
> > > RuntimeError: Signal has wrong argument types for slot
> >
> > I saw the post
> >
> >  
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/pykde%40mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/msg01444.html
> >
> > and it seems it is a known sip problem.
> >
> > Wasn't it fixed for sip 4?
> >
> > If it wasn't, I absolutely need a quick hack...
>
> I played around with this for a while, and I can't seem to find anyway to
> get this signal to work with any combination of #defines (%ModuleHeader and
> %TypeHeader) or changing WId to unsigned long in the sip file. It seems
> like that should be possible (esp given the msg you referenced), so I may
> be screwing up something else.
>
> I'll give another look later today.
>
> Was anything changed in sip?

No.

I plan to re-implement signals and slots in SIP 4.2, so I'll look at it then.

Phil