<div dir="ltr">Phil,<div><br></div><div>I've upgraded from PyQt5-5.13.0 to PyQt5-5.13.1 using pip and the clipboard issue is still there... aren't the commit <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">2f419c7ebaae changes living in the latest pypi </span>wheel?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:48 PM BPL <<a href="mailto:spscener84@gmail.com">spscener84@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Oh! I didn't know this was already living in the dev branch :O , by any chance... is it the commit `<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">2f419c7ebaae`? If that's so, that's great news! can't wait to try, this bug was really nasty and a lot of times when testing apps I ended up losing a lot of clipboard information. </span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Anyway, considering `5.13.1` is being <a href="https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.13_Release" target="_blank">released</a> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">in </span>15.08.2019 and probably an official new wheel will be uploaded to pypi after that I think I'll wait. Wow, this new release will contain a lot</div><div>of interesting bug fixes... really a major one in my book :)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Phil!!!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:10 PM Phil Thompson <<a href="mailto:phil@riverbankcomputing.com" target="_blank">phil@riverbankcomputing.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 13/08/2019 19:33, BPL wrote:<br>
> Phil,<br>
> <br>
> A while ago I'd posted you a bug that happened when copying content to <br>
> the<br>
> clipboard and the information copied being lost when exiting the app... <br>
> at<br>
> that time you'd provided a fast hack that "solved" the issue, let me <br>
> bring<br>
> back your answer here at that time:<br>
> <br>
> Ok I can now reproduce the problem. It also happens with C++ when the<br>
>> QApplication is created on the heap and not explicitly destroyed.<br>
>> The workaround in your test is to 'del app' at the end of the script.<br>
>> Tonight's PyQt snapshot adds support for using QCoreApplication (and<br>
>> sub-classes) as a context manager which calls the C++ dtor when <br>
>> exiting<br>
>> the context. So...<br>
>> with QApplication([]) as app:<br>
>> ....<br>
>> app->exec()<br>
>> Phil<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Thing is, in pyside2 you don't need to use any context manager to <br>
> provide<br>
> clipboard reliable behaviour so my question is, how hard would be for <br>
> you<br>
> to fix this issue properly without forcing the user to use this context<br>
> manager at all?<br>
> <br>
> Asking cos I have apps where everything is a plugin, even QApplication <br>
> &<br>
> subclasses are just plugins so I don't even know how or when they'll be<br>
> instantiated... being forced to use this context manager is really<br>
> inconvenient and ugly in many cases (not just mine) so having a <br>
> reliable<br>
> behaviour of the clipboard without these context managers like pyside2<br>
> would be awesome!!! :)<br>
<br>
Try the current sip and PyQt5 snapshots.<br>
<br>
Phil<br>
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