[PyQt] upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 -- problem with graphics

[Preisig, Heinz A]

Thanks for the help. I shall modify the code and look at the example 
too. I also decided to re-install. Shall report on results.

Cheers,
Heinz

On 09/04/2010 03:30 PM, David Boddie wrote:
> On Sat Sep 4 08:00:06 BST 2010, Preisig, Heinz A wrote:
>
>    
>> After upgrading Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 I encounter some problems with
>> running a graphics application I built last year. It uses the mechanisms
>> described in the example "elasticnodes". The two application represent a
>> graph, which when moving the nodes also update the location of the arcs.
>>
>> In both cases the arcs are not updated. In fact the example does not
>> show the arcs when starting it. My application does show the arcs, but
>> it does not update. I dug for some hours in the code, but could not find
>> a problem. It seems it does not get into the "itemChange" method of the
>> "QGraphicsItem" class. Some manipulations resulted in abortion of the
>> task, which when running from within Eclipse did not produce an error
>> message. From the terminal I got an occasional segmentation fault.
>>      
> I don't know why you are getting segmentation faults, but the problem with
> the itemChange method is due to a change in behaviour in Qt 4.6. You now
> need to call the item's setFlag method with the ItemSendsGeometryChanges
> flag to get notifications when items move.
>
> David
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