On Wednesday 29 June 2005 19:34, Henning Schröder wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Scribus is a free DTP application which is coded in C++ and Qt and
> provides scripting
> with Python.
> A Python script can import the qt module and access the data from the
> running application as far as it is reachable with the Qt-object
> system (qApp.children(), ..)
>
> Unfortunately automatic typecasting does not always work as expected.
> For example when I access qt.qApp.mainWidget() I get a QWidget. But
> the main widget is a ScribusWin-class which is derived from
> QMainWindow. So I expected I can get a QMainWindow.
>
> Instead of writing my own SIP-wrapper for ScribusWin I would like
> better typecasting.
> Is this possible or can I do it manually?
In the C++ program do something like
PyObject *mainWinPtr = PyLong_FromLong ((long)(QMainWindow *)
ptrToScribusWin);
and pass that as one of the arguments when calling into Python.
-----------------
In the Python program do:
from sip import wrapinstance, unwrapinstance
from qt import QMainWindow
def methodToBeCalledFromCPP (mainWinPtr):
mainWin = wrapinstance (mainWinPtr, QMainWindow)
# Python will recognize mainWin as type QMainWindow
# and will use the instance passed (as a ptr/long) from
# C++
...
result = ... # some Qt object
return unwrapinstance (result) # returns a C++ pointer as long
-----------------
Back in C++:
// pyResult is the long returned from the call to Python
// returned as a PyObject then converted to a pointer
// the Qt object it points to
// the instance can be created either in C++ or Python
// (but of course you have make sure the Python instance
// is persistent, as a widget owned by QMainWindow would be,
// for example).
QSomething *qobject = PyLong_AsLong (pyResult);
You can do the above with any objects that have sip bindings. If you want a
ScribusWin object in Python, you need to bind it first, but PyQt already
binds QMainWindow.
wrapinstance and unwrapinstance are covered in the sip docs.
Jim
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