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

[Maurizio Colucci]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 02:20, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On Monday 23 August 2004 12:22, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> > Thank you Jim. I am somewhat desperate here, so please post me if you
> > have ANY solution.
> >
> > As a hack, I am currently trying to write a C++ function that calls
> > connect(), but I don't know if I'll be successful (I have to pass the
> > address of the python slot to the C++ function, and I still don't know
> > how).
> >
> > Can I hope to make it work this way, or am I wasting my time?
> >
> > BTW, I am using sip 4 from debian sid.
>
> OK - here's probably the best I can come up with. Assuming you are building
> PyKDE using sip *4* with either *no* switches to configure.py, or at least
> no -i switch (meaning all of the cpp files are concatenated into one large
> file), do the following:
>
> in PyKDE-3.11.2/kdecore/ sipkdecorepart0.h:
>
> change one occurrence of *proxySlot(unsigned long) to *proxySlot(WId)
>
> in PyKDE-3.11.2/kdecore/sipkdecorepart0.cpp:
>
> change one occurrence of *proxySlot(unsigned long) to *proxySlot(WId)
> change one occurrence of *proxySlot(unsigned long a0) to *proxySlot(WId a0)
>
> I can test this to the point where the 'connect' call will work, but I
> don't have any code to actually test the signal/slot connection. If you can
> do the above changes and let me know how they work, I can modify PyKDE to
> do the edits automatically. It's kind of a pain to do that first, since it
> should work for both sip3 and sip 4 and for concatenated and unconcatenated
> builds, which means the scripting is a more involved and retesting for all
> cases will be needed.
>
> This change wouldn't affect anything else in PyKDE, since there is no other
> signal that has only "unsigned long" as a signature.
>
> Let me know if this works.
>
> Jim

It works! You are the hell of a hacker :-)

Now, I can't ask my users to compile pykde, so I suppose...? 

cheers
-- 
Maurizio Colucci
http://logicaldesktop.sourceforge.net