On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:44:41 +1000, Scott Ballard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to put together a QTreeView using the Model/View programming > but using either the Python Object class or QObject class as the data. > It seems that neither can be passed around as MIME/QDataStream data for > the drag and drop functionality. This looks the be a limitation of the > PyQt implementation and not of Qt itself. Would be great if the > documentation explicitly mentioned that they didn't implement > Q_DECLARE_METATYPE() functionality under QMetaType instead having dead > links to the method. > > The current implementation seems to only support a small subset of PyQt > classes (QStringList and a couple others) These are no good for handling > objects with a lot of custom attributes. > > I'm wondering if anyone has successfully done this before and what the > trick is? Do you have any example code? There was mention of supporting > arbitrary Python objects and QDataStream in the PyQt roadmap but no > mention of when it might be completed. I understand that it won't be > included in PyQT 4.5. > > I really hope that I am overlooking something as my application hinges > around this. The model/view programming seems great for simple stuff but > falls apart quickly for more high level uses. Someone must have figured > this out before!?
The following may help... https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/browser/TraitsBackendQt/trunk/enthought/traits/ui/qt4/clipboard.py ...which shows how to define a MIME type for a Python object and put it on the clipboard. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
