[PyKDE] QString and QValidator on Qt 4

[Paul Giannaros]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 23:32, Simon Edwards wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 23:43, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 21.11.06 22:55:11, Simon Edwards wrote:
> > > I've come up against a problem in Qt 4 with QValidator and its fixup()
>
> method.
>
> > > This code working on Qt 3:
> > >
> > >     def fixup(self,inputstr):
> > >         return unicode(inputstr).replace(":","")
> >
> > Things changed between Qt3 and Qt4 ;)
> >
> > > But it doesn't seem to work like this on PyQt 4. PyQt4's fixup() seems
> > > to require no return value. Is in-place modification of the QString
> > > argument expected???
> >
> > Yes, check the Qt4 docs, the fixup methods takes a reference to a
> > QString, so it can modify it without the need to return a new QString
> > object.
>
> I had a feeling that might be the case. But how can I neatly modify the
> contents of the QString object? QString doesn't have a setText() method.
>
> cheers,

Try
inputstr.trunace(0)
inputstr += "new string"