[PyQt] Possible incompatibility between latest PyQt5 and QScintilla wheels

[Detlev Offenbach]

Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2019, 22:36:33 CEST schrieb Phil Thompson:
> On 02/10/2019 19:11, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just observed a strange issue when using eric6. The focus handling
> > does not
> > work correctly when a calltips boy is shown. I suspect that this is
> > caused by
> > some incompatibility between QScintilla (compiled agains Qt 5.12.x) and
> > PyQt5
> > (compiled against Qt 5.13.1). All was installed via pip install. The
> > issue
> > here is, that the focus is stolen by the calltips box without
> > QScintilla
> > receiving a focusOut event. When the calltips box is closed, QScintilla
> > doesn't get a focusIn event.
> > 
> > After reverting PyQt5 to 5.13.0 everything worked again as it did for
> > years.
> > 
> > Maybe a QScintilla compiled against Qt 5.13.1 could fix it. Maybe there
> > is an
> > issue in Qt 5.13.1. Sorry for not being able to specify what is the
> > root
> > cause.
> 
> I think it is more likely that it is an issue with Qt 5.13.1 and so
> re-compiling against that version won't help.
> 
> There is really nothing I can do when a new Qt release has N bug fixes
> and M regressions.

However, the interesting thing is, I only observed it with QScintilla in 
relation to Calltips/Completion lists. Does QScintilla do any magic here?

Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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