[PyQt] Debugging QML for a PyQt5 Application

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2016 10:46:44 Cody Scott wrote:
> I'm wondering if it is possible to use the Qt Creator debugger to debug QML.
> 
> I see that there was an old thread on this mailing list (from 2013) and
> someone was able to get it to work.
> 
> https://riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2013-October/033373.html
> 
> Here is the code, just a simple Python and QML file.
> 
> https://github.com/Siecje/pyqt5-qml-debug

If you build PyQt with the debug flag, the Qt QML debugging infrastructure  
gets enabled. 

I haven't done QML debugging myself, but know about this, because I take care 
about the packaging of PyQt in openSUSE, where all packages are built with 
debugging enabled in order to produce debuginfo packages. Hence I've applied a 
patch to disable the QML debugging for PyQt, since this could generate a 
security issue for production systems..

Pete