[PyQt] Slot connections fail with newest snapshot

[Florian Bruhin]

* Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> [2016-07-21 15:03:21 +0100]:
> On 21 Jul 2016, at 1:51 pm, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
> > 
> > * Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> [2016-07-17 12:57:24 +0100]:
> >>>> The current behaviour is different, but what are you expecting to
> >>>> happen (given your class does not inherit from QObject)?
> >>> 
> >>> Oh, @pyqtSlot only works on classes inheriting from QObject? While
> >>> that makes some sense, that's news for me!
> >>> 
> >>> I think either it should just be ignored (like before?), or show some
> >>> useful error message like "pyqtSlot can only be used on classes
> >>> inheriting from QObject" or so. I also think this should be pointed
> >>> out in the docs for @pyqtSlot - while the examples do inherit from
> >>> QObject, it's not explicitly documented anywhere I think.
> >> 
> >> You can use it in classes that are used as mixins with QObject derived classes.
> > 
> > Hmm, I see.
> > 
> > So for normal classes which are not QObject subclasses, @pyqtSlot was
> > simply ignored so far?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > What about using @pyqtSlot on free functions (rather than methods)?
> > It seems that still works fine with the current snapshot - is that
> > ignored as well?
> 
> Yes.

Will this stay that way, or will there be a warning/error added for
that as well?

Florian

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