[review] [PyKDE] bugs using PyKDE

[Jim Bublitz]

On Monday 03 October 2005 14:35, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a recent menu in one of my apps
> It is created with :
>     ac = self.actionCollection()
>     ...
>     self.OpenRecent = KStdAction.openRecent(self.__slotOpenRecent_, ac)
>
> the slot is :
>     def fileOpenRecent(self, url):
>         if self.__checkModified_():
>             self.mar_editor.openArchive(url)
>             self.__file_choosed_ = url
>
> In the KDE documentation,
> (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.4-api/kdeui/html/namesp
> aceKStdAction.html#a68 ) it is written : "The signature of the slot being
>  called is of the form slotURLSelected( const KURL & )" but the signal
>  received seems to be slotURLSelected() in PyKDE, because I'm never
>  receiving any URL.
>
> To make it working, I have to use the following code :
>     self.OpenRecent = KStdAction.openRecent(self, PYSIGNAL(""), ac)
>     self.connect(self.OpenRecent, SIGNAL("urlSelected(const KURL&)"),
>                         self.fileOpenRecent)
>

That looks like an error in kstdaction.sip - the openRecent function doesn't 
have a signature specified. As far as I can tell, it's the only function in 
KStdAction whose slot expects an argument, and there's no way to determine 
that parsing the h file. I can patch that up in the next release. Since you 
have a workaround, it wouldn't be worth rebuilding your version of PyKDE 
until the patch is available.

> The second problem I'm having is with KDockWidget and KDockMainWindow.
> When creating the dock with :
>    pix = QPixmap(16, 16)
>    pix.fill()
>    mainDock = win.createDockWidget("New Dock", pix, None,
>  "main_dock_widget") the application is crashing (KCrash)


Not sure what's going on there - it may be a problem with the None value for 
the "parent" argument. You could try:

  mainDock = win.createDockWidget ("New Dock", pix)

or try using a 0 instead of None, or try assigning an actual widget as parent 
(each of those just to localize the bug, not as a fix).

Let me know if any of that makes a difference. Otherwise, a short example 
program would be helpful.

Jim