From pykde  Thu Jul 07 14:30:36 2005
From: Toby Dickenson <tdickenson () devmail ! geminidataloggers ! co ! uk>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:30:36 +0000
To: pykde
Subject: Re: [PyKDE] Issue with QDialog and lifetime
Message-Id: <200507071530.37001.tdickenson () devmail ! geminidataloggers ! co ! uk>
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On Thursday 07 July 2005 15:01, Phil Thompson wrote:

> The original proposal would cause problems in the following scenario...
> 
> 1. One or more modal dialogs that are hidden when not used, rather than
> being re-created each time they are needed.
> 
> 2. The dialogs are Python sub-classes of QDialog or the dialog has
> instance objects (ie. there are useful Python objects tied to the C++
> instance).
> 
> 3. No application references to the dialogs are maintained. The
> application relies on finding a dialog again by searching its parent's
> children.

....nor relies on the dialog staying alive to respond to events or signals. 
right?

> This would seem to be an untypical way of doing things - is anybody going
> to shout that their 5 million line application relies on this technique?

I *think* it should be problem-free, but Im not feeling confident about being 
able to reliably anticipate any problems. I would be happy to test if there 
was a patch for existing PyQt versions.


-- 
Toby Dickenson

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