[PyQt] Freezes and crashes with signal autoconnection

[Christian Roche]

Phil Thompson-5 wrote:
> 
>>I had to replace
>> ImageLink arguments in signal definition with 'PyQt_PyObject', not sure
>>why exactly)
> 
> Neither am I.
> 

Else I would get the following message:


> TypeError: type 'classobj' is not supported as a pyqtSignal() type
> argument type
> 
which is funny because the documentation seems to imply that any object can
be passed as a signal argument. It might have something to do with the
metatype mechanism, although this is yet another PyQt part that is totally
obscure to me.



> The bug is this line in get_param()...
> 
>     res = ulist.first()
> 
> ...which returns the first string in the list and *not* a copy of the
> first
> string in the list. The result is that you are still using it after Qt has
> destroyed it. This behaviour is horribly un-Pythonic but allowed (so I
> can't change it as doing so might break other people's code).
> 
> Change the line to...
> 
>     res = ulist[0]
> 
> ...and it should be Ok.
> 

Ok it looks like it *does* work now. I think it's too bad but ok to keep the
weird behavior for backward compatibility, but at least please someone write
a note about it in the documentation! This bug was horrendous with no erorr
message, no stack trace and a seemingly random occurrence, hence my feeling
that it should have be related to multi-threading. I would never have been
able to solve it by myself.

Anyway everything seems to work fine now. Thanks a lot for your kind support
and patience!
Chris
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