[PyQt] qmlRegisterType limited to 20 Classes?

[Phil Thompson]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:40:53 +0100, Detlev Offenbach
<detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 November 2013, 16:37:31 Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:35:31 +0100, Tobias Lausch
<lausch at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
>> 
>> wrote:
>> > Hi There,
>> > 
>> > approx. 50 but I would expect this limit to be breached in half a
year
>> > when nobody remembers that there has been such a limit.
>> 
>> You should get an exception when the limit is reached.
>> 
>> > Having no limit at all would be very nice.
>> 
>> ...but not possible.
> 
> Why that? Hardcoded array limits are always a bad idea. At work my
> developers 
> are forced to explain the need for such a design. 

The problem is that C++ (unlike Python) doesn't allow you to create new
classes at runtime. QML types (as they are implemented as C++ classes) must
be defined at compile time. They are mapped to Python types at runtime.

The fundamental problem is that QML is badly designed.

Phil