[PyQt] Possible incompatibility between latest PyQt5 and QScintilla wheels

[Phil Thompson]

On 02/10/2019 19:11, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just observed a strange issue when using eric6. The focus handling 
> does not
> work correctly when a calltips boy is shown. I suspect that this is 
> caused by
> some incompatibility between QScintilla (compiled agains Qt 5.12.x) and 
> PyQt5
> (compiled against Qt 5.13.1). All was installed via pip install. The 
> issue
> here is, that the focus is stolen by the calltips box without 
> QScintilla
> receiving a focusOut event. When the calltips box is closed, QScintilla
> doesn't get a focusIn event.
> 
> After reverting PyQt5 to 5.13.0 everything worked again as it did for 
> years.
> 
> Maybe a QScintilla compiled against Qt 5.13.1 could fix it. Maybe there 
> is an
> issue in Qt 5.13.1. Sorry for not being able to specify what is the 
> root
> cause.

I think it is more likely that it is an issue with Qt 5.13.1 and so 
re-compiling against that version won't help.

There is really nothing I can do when a new Qt release has N bug fixes 
and M regressions.

Phil