so you're creating the app on the plugin, and create a "dummy widget" (sianchor) , as a child of xsi main window. and from there on any widget you create is parented under siacnchor. I believe the return of getApplicationWindowHandle on linux is an x window, there should be a way in qt to parent a widget to x window, - never used it though, Will take a look on Monday, and see if I can make any progress there.
Cheers Ran On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > right here is the issue, softimage provides this handle only in cpp... > since its a void pointer i believe they chose not make it available for > python or other scripting languages. > > in both blur's implementation and the implementation jo and i made we use > the member function of a Desktop class, GetApplicationWindowHandle(). on > windows the compiled plugin is actually quite simple (there is some non > functional stuff in it that needs to be removed) it creates the > QApplication in cpp then an 'anchor widget' and sets the widget's parent to > the return of the GetApplicationWindowHandle(). > > > https://github.com/caron/PyQtForSoftimage/blob/master/src/QtSoftimage/qtsoftimage.cpp#L96-L100 > > if you look here, i think we need to make some platform specific #ifdefs > and platform specific function calls to reparent the QApplication to the > return of GetApplicationWindowHandle(). the python code provides the means > to forward the keystrokes to the necessary QWidget. i believe you will need > this once the QWidget is reparented and run in a non modal way, because > otherwise softimage is going to want to take those keystrokes. > > as i mentioned to michal i did some reasearch for the corresponding xlib > functions to do the same... > > > http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-and-session-manager/XReparentWindow.html > > i also found these discussions... > > http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2000-07/thread00492-0.html > > http://www.qtforum.org/article/27551/native-x-application-qt-widget-integration.html > > do you have experience with this xlib/x server api? > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:35 PM, ran sariel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> but I couldn't find a way to get soft to return the top window handle >> from python, did anyone else manage to do it without resorting to compiled >> plugin? > > > >
