[PyKDE] QScintilla and Qt4

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Wed Jul 6 07:47:28 BST 2005


> On July 5, 2005 03:11 pm, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Tuesday 05 July 2005 8:55 pm, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>> > I know the whole Qt4 thing has come up time and time again, but
>> hopefully
>> > my questions are a little different ;)
>> >
>> > How much work has already gone into porting Scintilla to Qt4?
>>
>> None.
>>
>> > If any has been done, would I be able to get my hands on it? I'd
>> prefer
>> > not to have to start from scratch ;)
>> >
>> > I'm assuming (hoping more like) that not much will actually have to be
>> > done, maybe a few QPainter api differences (I haven't looked at depth
>> > into the differences to the new painter api, hopefully its somewhat
>> > compatable)
>> >
>> > I'm currently using qt3 for a little editor:
>> > http://pic.tomasu.org/screenshots/sciq-07-05-05.png
>> >
>> > Was hoping to get it to work under qt4, but I have no idea how much
>> work
>> > it'll be to get QScintilla to work with it..
>>
>> I don't expect that it will take much work.
>
> Well, so far its going ok, with the help of qt3to4 :) it found alot of
> things
> it could automatically handle ;)
>
> though right at this moment, QContextMenuEvent::isConsumed seems not to me
> mentioned anywhere in the qt4 docs, or porting guide.
>
> we shall see.
>
>> Phil
>
> Since It seems I'll have to do the work, is there any objections to
> packaging
> qscintilla with my editor? Since I have no idea if my "work" will be fit
> for
> inclusion in the standard distro :)

No - so long as you conform to the QScintilla license.

Phil




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