[PyKDE] PyQt4 question - QFileIconProvider

[Phil Thompson]

> On Monday 02 October 2006 18:36, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I would like to have my own file icon provider for QFileDialog.
>> > Therefore, I
>> > created a derived class and wanted to overwrite the icon methods.
>> > Unfortunately Python doesn't allow to have to methods with the same
>> name
>> > but
>> > different signature. How do I implement the two virtual icon methods
>> of
>> > QFileIconProvider, so that they get called by a QFileDialog after the
>> > icon provider of the dialog was set?
>>
>> You need to type check the argument yourself (eg. isinstance(arg,
>> QFileInfo)) to work out how it was called.
>>
>> Phil
>
> I thought so. Unfortunately, my variant of the icon method doesn't get
> called,
> allthough the iconProvider call to the created QFileDialog shows, that my
> IconProvider is installed. What am I doing wrongly?

As ever, a small complete example that demonstrates the problem...

Phil