[PyQt] Re: QStyle manipulations

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-07-24 10:26, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:03:47 +0200, "Hans-Peter Jansen"<hpj at urpla.net>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've some layout issues with customized widgets on the Mac, and now, I
>> would
>> like to _intercept_ a single QStyle method:
> layoutSpacingImplementation(),
>> but how? I can create a style with QtGui.QStyleFactory.create(), but how
> do
>> I intercept such a method? PyQt forbids me to subclass the style object,
>> returned from factory (Phil, shouldn't these derive from QCommonStyle,
> and
>> been able to subclass? [1])  and the "dirty as hell" - patch it into the
>> object - approach seem to not work either. Any more ideas?
>>
>> BTW, Phil, you don't wrap the style classes directly, because they may be
>
>> plug-ins, but what's the technical reason behind this? Aren't there hosts
>
>> of other plug-ins (sql drivers, image formats, etc..) in use today?
>
> Yes, but you don't access them directly - PyQt knows nothing about them.

Do you have an answer for his main question? I am interested, too.

-- 
Robert Kern

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