[PyKDE] Revisiting an old khtml crash

[Brian Thomason]

Many thanks for the quick response Jim.  Testing this out now.

-Brian

Jim Bublitz wrote:

>On Tuesday 13 July 2004 17:42, Brian Thomason wrote:
>  
>
>>In this old thread:
>>
>>http://www.mail-archive.com/pykde@mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/msg01331.html
>>
>>A user is experiencing the exact same problem I've been seeing with
>>pykde 3.11 on both Linspire 4.5 and Debian SID. (at least to my feeble
>>mind it appears that way)
>>
>>When overriding any type of pyqt event, khtml bombs out.  (Even simply
>>importing khtml is a no go)
>>
>>Just as the user stated (as tested on mandrake), 3.7 does not display
>>this behavior.  I have attached a small, hoping some big brain (Jim :-)
>>) might have a solution to this problem.
>>    
>>
>
>In sip/kparts/event.sip, comment out the ConvertToSubClassCode block as shown 
>below and recompile kparts (python configure.py -lkparts && make && su 
>-c"make install"). Works for me.
>
>khtml (and the new kmdi module) would have the same problem because they both 
>depend on kparts. The only thing this change affects is "typecasting" of 
>KParts::Event subclasses - for example if a factory function creates a 
>KParts::GUIActivate even but returns KParts::Event, there is no way in Python 
>to "up-cast" to the subclass type (except via the commented out block).
>
>I expect the "sipClass=NULL" stmt is causing the problem, but I'll have to 
>look into what to replace it with. I don't expect commenting this stuff out 
>will affect many people (if anybody), so I probably won't give it a high 
>priority unless someone has a problem with it. 
>
>I'll probably issue a patched tarball sometime around the time I release the 
>KDE 3.3.beta1 snapshot, which will be a week or two.
>
>Thanks for re-activating this bug - it fell through the cracks. Let me know if 
>the problem persists.
>
>Jim
>
>class Event : QCustomEvent
>{
>%TypeHeaderCode
>#include <event.h>
>%End
>
>
>public:
>                         Event (const char*);
>    virtual const char*  eventName () const;
>    static bool          test (const QEvent*);
>    static bool          test (const QEvent*, const char*);
>
>//force
>//%ConvertToSubClassCode
>//    const QString ev = ((KParts::Event *)sipCpp) -> eventName ();
>//    if (ev == "KParts/GUIActivate")
>//        sipClass = sipClass_KParts_GUIActivateEvent;
>//    else if (ev == "KParts/PartActivateEvent")
>//        sipClass = sipClass_KParts_PartActivateEvent;
>//    else if (ev == "KParts/PartSelectEvent")
>//        sipClass = sipClass_KParts_PartSelectEvent;
>//    else
>//        sipClass = NULL;
>//%End
>//end
>
>};  // class Event
>
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