[PyQt] Re: How do I intercept widget destruction?

[Matt Newell]

On Wednesday 22 October 2008 09:49:58 Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Matt Newell wrote:
> > If you subclass you can override QWidget.closeEvent, QWidget.hideEvent,
> > or the destructor.
>
> Thanks - I tried to override closeEvent but it never seems to get called.
> Is there some trick? This is for a QLineEdit.
>
> Jeremy

close events are only delivered to top level windows.  You either need to use 
hideEvent on the line edit, or closeEvent on it's window().

Matt