[PyQt] Segmentation Fault

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 11/29/2007 12:03 PM, Fred wrote:

> I've got a difficult to track problem. I'm creating a game to learn PyQt and 
> I'm sure I am missing something really, really obvious, but still: can't find 
> it.
> 
> I made a grid of tiles. Every tile is a graphicsItem on a scene. I've made a 
> dictionary of tiles where the key is the coordinates on the grid (x,y) and 
> the content is (a reference to) the qgraphicsItem.
> 
> On a certain point in the game, during a mousepressevent, I need to remove a 
> certain amount of tiles. In a for loop I remove the qgraphicsitem from the 
> scene and from the dictionary and I delete the item itself (del item).
> 
> Then, when it enters the eventloop again, it segfaults. I'm sure it has 
> something to do with the way I delete the item's. When I delete it from the 
> scene, but keep it in the dictionary, it works (well, it doesn't segfault). 
> If I remove it from the dictionary, but not from the scene, it works too. My 
> guess is that it works in those to cases, because the item itself is then not 
> deleted. But I want it deleted. Somehow, when I get back into the eventloop, 
> the removed items are still expected to be there.
> 
> Any hints?

We're short on magicians lately :)

Please post a complete, runnable source code example that reproduces the 
bug. But let me guess that you're doing something weird with ownership 
of the items...
-- 
Giovanni Bajo