[PyQt] QMacPasteboardMime

[Phil Thompson]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:24:43 -0500, Hugo Mallinson
<hugo.mallinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm trying to write a cross-platform app with drag and drop. On the mac
> side, I'm trying to catch dropped objects with custom UTIs which don't
map
> to MIME types. The docs say this conversion is handled by
> QMacPasteboardMime, and that by subclassing it I can write my own
> conversion routines. There's an example for doing this in C++ here:
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1804728/how-to-receive-drag-and-drop-from-apple-address-book-in-qt-4-4-on-mac-os-x-10-5
> . This class doesn't seem to appear in PyQt, however (I'm using 4.8.6 on
a
> mac with python 2.7), e.g. if I do "from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui"
then I
> can't use either QtCore.QMacPasteboardMime or QtGui.QMacPasteboardMime.
The
> only documentation I can find for the class is in the PyQt 4.7 docs; in
the
> current docs the link is dead
>
(http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qmacpasteboardmime.html).
> 
> 
> Is there some way to access this class? 

It will be in tonight's snapshot - untested.

Phil