[PyQt] segfault when using a proxy and SIGNAL( "clicked(QModelIndex)" )

[Arnold Krille]

Hi,

On Thursday 09 April 2009 19:35:32 TP wrote:
> Here are the most important lines:
>         self.view = QTreeView( parent )
>         self.connect( self.view, SIGNAL( "clicked(QModelIndex)" )
>                 , self.cellClicked )
>     def cellClicked( self, qmodelindex ):
>         if qmodelindex.isValid():
>             print qmodelindex.internalPointer()
> The problem seems to be related to qmodelindex, the segfault appears when
> taking internalPointer method.

I think there is a very good reason internalPointer has the name it has. It is 
a pointer for internal purposes, that is internal for the model so it can map 
indexes to the internal data structures. (And yes, that is needed for anything 
except simple list or table models.:)

You shouldn't really access it from a view (or from a proxy-model). Actually 
the reason for the model-view-pattern is that you don't have to access the 
internal structures of the model from the view...

And here is another reason this crashes: Not only don't you know which type 
(if any) the object pointed to is, you also don't know whether python knows 
about that data type (python doesn't really know about pointers).

Have fun,

Arnold
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