Re: [PyQt] Please tell me if I have this straight...

2011-08-06 Thread David Cortesi
OK, David Boddie helped clear up my confusion (as did rereading chapter 1 of "Rapid GUI Programming") -- to get from a QString to something I can work on in Python it is only necessary to apply unicode(). Doh! (Facepalm). BLEEP represents any transformation that the user requires, which is not in

Re: [PyQt] Please tell me if I have this straight...

2011-08-06 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Saturday 06 August 2011, 00:35:51 David Boddie wrote: > On Fri Aug 5 19:27:51 BST 2011, David Cortesi wrote: > > I present a document to a user in a QPlainTextEdit widget. The > > widget nicely handles most editing functions, but there is a unique > > operation I want to provide. When the user s

Re: [PyQt] Please tell me if I have this straight...

2011-08-05 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Aug 5 19:27:51 BST 2011, David Cortesi wrote: > I present a document to a user in a QPlainTextEdit widget. The widget > nicely handles most editing functions, but there is a unique operation > I want to provide. When the user selects Edit > BLEEP, the app is > supposed to BLEEP the document

Re: [PyQt] Please tell me if I have this straight...

2011-08-05 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Friday 05 August 2011, 20:27:51 David Cortesi wrote: > I present a document to a user in a QPlainTextEdit widget. The widget > nicely handles most editing functions, but there is a unique > operation I want to provide. When the user selects Edit > BLEEP, the > app is supposed to BLEEP the docume

[PyQt] Please tell me if I have this straight...

2011-08-05 Thread David Cortesi
I present a document to a user in a QPlainTextEdit widget. The widget nicely handles most editing functions, but there is a unique operation I want to provide. When the user selects Edit > BLEEP, the app is supposed to BLEEP the document. BLEEPing is not something Qt does, I have to implement BLEE