[PyKDE] QSyntaxHighlighter issues

[Phil Thompson]

On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:00 pm, Eli Yukelzon wrote:
> Hi there.
> I'm trying to implement a HTML tag highlighting in QTextEdit
> I've subclassed the QSyntaxHighlighter and QTextEdit like this:
>
> class qh(QSyntaxHighlighter):
>  def __init__(self, edit):
>   QSyntaxHighlighter(edit)
>
>  def highlightParagraph( text, lastPara ):
>   regexp = re.compile( r'^([\\w-]+:\\s)')
>   if( regexp.search( text ) != -1 ):
>    font = textEdit().currentFont()
>    font.setBold( True )
>    self.setFormat( 0, regexp.matchedLength(), font )
>
>   return 0
>
> class te(QTextEdit):
>  def __init__ (self,parent = 0, name = ""):
>   QTextEdit(parent,name)
>   #self.setTextFormat( Qt.PlainText )
>   self.sh = qh(self)
>
> but on startup i get this exception:
> attributeError, sipThis
> in QSyntaxHighlighter constructor.
>
> What am i doing wrong? Maybe someone already implemented this, and I'm
> just reinventing the wheel?

You aren't passing self to the superclass __init__() methods.

Phil