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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Plasma & Python in KF5; was Re: Having an issue with the minimum size of Plasma.WebView
From:       Sebastian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-01-17 14:21:22
Message-ID: 1635268.7L62JskGRH () miro
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On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 20:48:35 Simon Edwards wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 02:44 PM, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 January 2013, Sebastian K=FCgler wrote:
> >> So you'd write a set of QObject deriven classes in Python (you can use
> >> various existing third party libraries for that, if you wish so), but
> >> they
> >> don't have any UI in them, they just offer non-visual extensions.
> > =

> > the problem, if i understood correctly is that the properties, signals =
and
> > slots defined in those python classes would not visible from qml, due to
> > how it internally works (they are not in the static metadata object that
> > can't be touched at runtime, at least not outside of Qt)
> =

> QtQuick is quite bindings hostile in this aspect when it should be fully =

> dynamic (i.e. not requiring things to done at compile time).
> =

> Anyway, as fate or dumb luck would have it, I was playing around with =

> QML and Python a day or two before Luca pointed me towards this thread. =

> I also discovered this bindings problem and read that it was quite =

> difficult for PyQt to do. I went digging and found that the PySide guys =

> had developed an acceptable solution, under the LGPL v2 (god bless =

> them!). So for the last few days I've been (slowly) porting their =

> solution over to work with PyQt. There is more work to do but I don't =

> see why it shouldn't be possible to "import" module/extensions written =

> in Python into a QML file and use it like you would a C++ one.
> =

> work in progress...

Very cool. Please keep us updated, and let us know if you run into problems=
 we =

might be able to help with.

Cheers,
-- =

sebas

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