On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:20:48 +0100, Wilbert Berendsen <wbs...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Op Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:01:21 +0000 > Phil Thompson <p...@riverbankcomputing.com> schreef: > >> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:13:15 +0100, Wilbert Berendsen >> <wbs...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > It seems sip 4.14.3 forgets QTextUserData objects. >> > (...) >> > Note that it isn't forgotten that there is a QTextUserData set, but >> > it is returned as a different object, without the 'value' attribute >> > that was previously set. >> > >> > Is this a bug? >> >> It's a PyQt bug - fixed in tonight's snapshot. > > I tried to work around the bug, but that seems not to be possible. Even > when deriving from QTextBlockUserData, the python wrapper is lost when > requesting the same object later. Sometime it lives for a few seconds > but eventually it dies, forgetting the Python attributes that were set. > > I see, besides Frescobaldi[1], also Ninja[2] suffering from this > problem. > [1] https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi > [2] https://github.com/ninja-ide/ninja-ide > > In the case of Frescobaldi, the bug is quite severe: Frescobaldi > tokenizes all entered text, caching the tokens (created by a > QSyntaxHighlighter) in the QTextBlockUserData for every line of text. > Due to this bug the parser runs every time on the whole document, as > the parsing state is also lost, causing slowdowns of minutes... > > The QTextBlockUserData is the only place where custom information can > be attached to text lines. I don't know of any other way to store > information relating to text blocks. > > Could the fix for this bug also be forwarded to Linux packagers soon, as > many new Linux distros now package recent PyQt4 versions? > > If I can help, I'd be grateful. > > best wishes, > Wilbert
I'll make a new release sooner rather than later. I do invite people to test current snapshots before making a release but I suspect people rarely do. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
