[PyKDE] Building new Qt4 extension with sipdistutils

[Jim Bublitz]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 03:00, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 2:59 am, Phil Thompson wrote:
> >> > There's a post about PyQt4 with Qt 4.2 that mentions "missing classes
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> > missing methods".  Am I understanding it correctly then that the next
> >> > version
> >> > of PyQt4 will have this stuff?
> >>
> >> I meant the new Qt 4.2 functionality - but the Embed stuff seems fairly
> >> straight forward. Can you list the extra QWidget and QApplication
> >> methods
> >> you need so that I don't miss anything?
> >
> > Ok, thanks.  :)  I had written "this post can be disregarded if...",
> > which makes it hard to figure out if it got missed or whatever.  I must
> > have been
> > smoking something that day...
> >
> > Anyway, here they are:
> >
> > From QApplication:
> >   virtual bool x11EventFilter ( XEvent * event )
> >   int x11ProcessEvent ( XEvent * event )
> >
> > From QWidget:
> >   bool QWidget::x11Event ( XEvent * event )   [virtual protected]
> >
> > Note that last one is virtual protected, you should probably stick with
> > whatever your policy on protected methods is, even if it means leaving
> > that
> > one out.  :)  There's also a winEvent that windows users might want.
> >
> > I can actually live without those methods by using python-xlib, creating
> > a thread (so it has an event loop), creating a hidden window, registering
> > events with the x server and then emitting signals.  There's at least an
> > even
> > chance that even if these methods are included, I'm going to need the
> > kind of
> > control that you only get using xlib directly.  But I absolutely need the
> > Qx11Embed* widgets, um, both of them.
>
> You'll have to live without those methods as I'm not going to wrap the
> XEvent structure. So long as the classes are still useful...

Just to clarify, are you going to add the QX11Embed widget stuff (I presume 
without the one protected method that takes an XEvent arg)?

Jim