[PyQt] QWebPage plug-ins

[Phil Thompson]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:36:29 +0200, Alejandro Serrano <trupill at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Domingo 14 Junio 2009 14:26:38 Phil Thompson escribió:
>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:05:26 +0200, Alejandro Serrano
<trupill at gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > ...
>>
>> It's true that earlier versions of PyQt registered a lot of C++ types
>> that
>> Qt didn't register automatically, but that was an implementation detail
>> and
>> not documented behavior. As the registration is template based it has to
>> be
>> done from C++.
>>
>> Phil
> 
> I see... The problem that I'm facing is that I am creating the
application 
> using plug-ins, and I need them to create different widgets in the
> QWebPage. I 
> have thought about two solutions, and I would like to know whether they
are
> 
> possible:
> 1. Create some C++ or SIP function that would register a type passed as 
> argument somehow. That way I would only need one C++ library. Maybe just 
> something that would wrap qRegisterMetaType...

Not easy - it's a template.

> 2. Make all plug-in derive from some common class and then register the
> base 
> class. If I do that, could I use the derived classes from QWebPage?

I've no problem with including additional C++ classes that are then wrapped
so that particular things can be done from Python - see the various QPy
classes in PyQt - but somebody will have to say exactly what's needed.

Phil