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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b95f5dbb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,464 @@ +====== +PySide +====== + +.. contents:: **Table of Contents** + +Introduction +============ + +PySide is the Python Qt bindings project, providing access the complete Qt 4.8 framework +as well as to generator tools for rapidly generating bindings for any C++ libraries. + +The PySide project is developed in the open, with all facilities you'd expect +from any modern OSS project such as all code in a git repository [1], an open +Bugzilla [2] for reporting bugs, and an open design process [3]. We welcome +any contribution without requiring a transfer of copyright. + +Compatibility +============= + +PySide requires Python 2.6 or later and Qt 4.6 or better. + +Installing PySide from source on a Windows System +================================================= + +Installing prerequisities +------------------------- + +#. Install `Python 2.7 + <http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/>`_. + +#. Install `Qt 4.8 libraries for Windows (VS 2008) + <http://releases.qt-project.org/qt4/source/qt-win-opensource-4.8.2-vs2008.exe>`_. + +#. Install `Cmake 2.8 + <http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html>`_. + +#. Install `Visual Studio Express 2008 + <http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/>`_ + when building against Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2. + Install `Visual Studio Express 2010 + <http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-2010-express>`_ + when building against Python 3.3. + +#. Install `Git 1.7 + <http://git-scm.com/download/win>`_. + +#. (Optional) Install `OpenSSL + <http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html>`_. + +#. Install latest `distribute` distribution into the Python you + installed in the first step: download `distribute_setup.py + <http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py>`_ and run it using + the ``python`` interpreter of your Python 2.7 installation using a + command prompt: + + :: + + c:\> c:\Python27\python distribute_setup.py + +#. Use that Python's `bin/easy_install` to install `virtualenv`: + + :: + + c:\> c:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install virtualenv + +#. Use that Python's virtualenv to make a workspace: + + :: + + c:\> c:\Python27\Scripts\virtualenv env + +#. Open Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt: + + :: + + c:\> c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008\Visual Studio Tools\Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt.lnk + +#. Switch to the ``env`` directory: + + :: + + c:\> cd env + +Installing PySide +----------------- + +Use ``pip`` to get `PySide` installed: + +:: + + c:\env> Scripts\pip install PySide --install-option="--qmake=c:\\Qt\\4.8.2\\bin\\qmake.exe" + +Optionally you can specify the path to OpenSSL libs: + +:: + + c:\env> Scripts\pip install PySide --install-option="--openssl=c:\\OpenSSL32bit\\bin" --install-option="--qmake=c:\\Qt\\4.8.2\\bin\\qmake.exe" + +Building PySide installer +------------------------- + +#. Clone ``PySide`` from git repository: + + :: + + c:\> git clone https://github.com/PySide/pyside-setup.git pyside-setup + +#. Switch to the ``pyside-setup`` directory: + + :: + + c:\> cd pyside-setup + +#. Build ``PySide`` windows installer: + + :: + + c:\> c:\Python27\python setup.py bdist_wininst --qmake=c:\Qt\4.8.2\bin\qmake.exe --openssl=c:\OpenSSL32bit\bin + +Installing PySide from source on a UNIX System (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) +================================================================= + +Installing prerequisities +------------------------- + +#. Install Python 2.7 header files and a static library: + + :: + + $ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev + +#. Install Qt 4.8 libraries: + + :: + + $ sudo apt-get install qt-sdk + +#. Install cmake: + + :: + + $ sudo apt-get install cmake + +#. Install git: + + :: + + $ sudo apt-get install git + +#. Install latest `distribute` distribution into the Python you + installed in the first step: download `distribute_setup.py + <http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py>`_ and run it using + the ``python`` interpreter of your Python 2.7 installation using a + command prompt: + + :: + + $ sudo python distribute_setup.py + +#. Use that Python's `bin/easy_install` to install `virtualenv`: + + :: + + $ sudo easy_install virtualenv + +#. Use that Python's virtualenv to make a workspace: + + :: + + $ virtualenv env + +Installing PySide +----------------- + +Use ``pip`` to get `PySide` installed from PyPI: + +:: + + $ env/bin/pip install PySide + +Alternatively you can install development version of `PySide` from github repository: + +:: + + $ env/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/PySide/pyside-setup.git + +You can also specify version of `PySide` when installing from github repository: + +:: + + $ env/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/PySide/pyside-setup.git@1.1.1 + +Building PySide distribution egg +-------------------------------- + +#. Clone ``PySide`` from git repository: + + :: + + $ git clone https://github.com/PySide/pyside-setup.git pyside-setup + +#. Switch to the ``pyside-setup`` directory: + + :: + + $ cd pyside-setup + +#. Build ``PySide`` distribution egg: + + :: + + $ env/bin/python setup.py bdist_egg + +#. Optionally you can build standalone version of distribution egg with embedded Qt libs: + + :: + + $ env/bin/python setup.py bdist_egg --standalone + +Feedback and getting involved +============================= + +- Mailing list: http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside +- Issue tracker: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/PYSIDE +- Code Repository: http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside + +Changes +======= + +1.1.2 (2012-08-28) +------------------ + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- During signal emission don't get return type after callback +- Invalidate QStandardModel::invisibleRootItem in clear() method +- QAbstractItemModel has wrong ownership policy for selectionModel() +- Improved QVector to python conversion +- Disable docstring generation if tools aren't found. +- Fixed some issues compiling PySide using VC++ +- Install the shiboken module to site-packages +- Fix compilation when there is no libxslt installed on the system. +- Set a default hash function for all ObjectTypes. +- Fix segfault calling shiboken.dump + +1.1.1 (2012-04-19) +------------------ + +Major changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Unified toolchain! No more GeneratorRunner and ApiExtractor, now you just need Shiboken to compile PySide. + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- 1105 Spyder fails with HEAD +- 1126 Segfault when exception is raised in signalInstanceDisconnect +- 1135 SIGSEGV when loading custom widget using QUiLoader when overriding createWidget() +- 1041 QAbstractItemModel has wrong ownership policy for selectionModel() +- 1086 generatorrunner segfault processing #include +- 1110 Concurrency error causes GC heap corruption +- 1113 Instantiating QObject in user-defined QML element's constructor crashes if instantiated from QML +- 1129 Segmentation fault on close by QStandardItem/QStandardItemModel +- 1104 QSettings has problems with long integers +- 1108 tests/QtGui/pyside_reload_test.py fails when bytecode writing is disabled +- 1138 Subclassing of QUiLoader leads to "Internal C++ object already deleted" exception (again) +- 1124 QPainter.drawPixmapFragments should take a list as first argument +- 1065 Invalid example in QFileDialog documentation +- 1092 shiboken names itself a 'generator' +- 1094 shiboken doesn't complain about invalid options +- 1044 Incorrect call to parent constructor in example +- 1139 Crash at exit due to thread state (tstate) being NULL +- PYSIDE-41 QModelIndex unhashable + +1.1.0 (2012-01-02) +------------------ + +Major changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- New type converter scheme + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- 1010 Shiboken Cygwin patch +- 1034 Error compiling PySide with Python 3.2.2 32bit on Windows +- 1040 pyside-uic overwriting attributes before they are being used +- 1053 pyside-lupdate used with .pro files can't handle Windows paths that contain spaces +- 1060 Subclassing of QUiLoader leads to "Internal C++ object already deleted" exception +- 1063 Bug writing to files using "QTextStream + QFile + QTextEdit" on Linux +- 1069 QtCore.QDataStream silently fails on writing Python string +- 1077 Application exit crash when call QSyntaxHighlighter.document() +- 1082 OSX binary links are broken +- 1083 winId returns a PyCObject making it impossible to compare two winIds +- 1084 Crash (segfault) when writing unicode string on socket +- 1091 PixmapFragment and drawPixmapFragments are not bound +- 1095 No examples for shiboken tutorial +- 1097 QtGui.QShortcut.setKey requires QKeySequence +- 1101 Report invalid function signatures in typesystem +- 902 Expose Shiboken functionality through a Python module +- 969 viewOptions of QAbstractItemView error + +1.0.9 (2011-11-29) +------------------ + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- 1058 Strange code in PySide/QtUiTools/glue/plugins.h +- 1057 valgrind detected "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value" +- 1052 PySideConfig.cmake contains an infinite loop due to missing default for SHIBOKEN_PYTHON_SUFFIX +- 1048 QGridLayout.itemAtPosition() crashes when it should return None +- 1037 shiboken fails to build against python 3.2 (both normal and -dbg) on i386 (and others) +- 1036 Qt.KeyboardModifiers always evaluates to zero +- 1033 QDialog.DialogCode instances and return value from \QDialog.exec_ hash to different values +- 1031 QState.parentState() or QState.machine() causes python crash at exit +- 1029 qmlRegisterType Fails to Increase the Ref Count +- 1028 QWidget winId missing +- 1016 Calling of Q_INVOKABLE method returning not QVariant is impossible... +- 1013 connect to QSqlTableModel.primeInsert() causes crash +- 1012 FTBFS with hardening flags enabled +- 1011 PySide Cygwin patch +- 1010 Shiboken Cygwin patch +- 1009 GeneratorRunner Cygwin patch +- 1008 ApiExtractor Cygwin patch +- 891 ApiExtractor doesn't support doxygen as backend to doc generation. + +1.0.8 (2011-10-21) +------------------ + +Major changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Experimental Python3.2 support +- Qt4.8 beta support + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- 1022 RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while getting the str of an object +- 1019 Overriding QWidget.show or QWidget.hide do not work +- 944 Segfault on QIcon(None).pixmap() + +1.0.7 (2011-09-21) +------------------ + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- 996 Missing dependencies for QtWebKit in buildscripts for Fedora +- 986 Documentation links +- 985 Provide versioned pyside-docs zip file to help packagers +- 981 QSettings docs should empathize the behavior changes of value() on different platforms +- 902 Expose Shiboken functionality through a Python module +- 997 QDeclarativePropertyMap doesn't work. +- 994 QIODevice.readData must use qmemcpy instead of qstrncpy +- 989 Pickling QColor fails +- 987 Disconnecting a signal that has not been connected +- 973 shouldInterruptJavaScript slot override is never called +- 966 QX11Info.display() missing +- 959 can't pass QVariant to the QtWebkit bridge +- 1006 Segfault in QLabel init +- 1002 Segmentation fault on PySide/Spyder exit +- 998 Segfault with Spyder after switching to another app +- 995 QDeclarativeView.itemAt returns faulty reference. (leading to SEGFAULT) +- 990 Segfault when trying to disconnect a signal that is not connected +- 975 Possible memory leak +- 991 The __repr__ of various types is broken +- 988 The type supplied with currentChanged signal in QTabWidget has changed in 1.0.6 + +1.0.6 (2011-08-22) +------------------ + +Major changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- New documentation layout; +- Fixed some regressions from the last release (1.0.5); +- Optimizations during anonymous connection; + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- 972 anchorlayout.py of graphicsview example raised a unwriteable memory exception when exits +- 953 Segfault when QObject is garbage collected after QTimer.singeShot +- 951 ComponentComplete not called on QDeclarativeItem subclass +- 965 Segfault in QtUiTools.QUiLoader.load +- 958 Segmentation fault with resource files +- 944 Segfault on QIcon(None).pixmap() +- 941 Signals with QtCore.Qt types as arguments has invalid signatures +- 964 QAbstractItemView.moveCursor() method is missing +- 963 What's This not displaying QTableWidget column header information as in Qt Designer +- 961 QColor.__repr__/__str__ should be more pythonic +- 960 QColor.__reduce__ is incorrect for HSL colors +- 950 implement Q_INVOKABLE +- 940 setAttributeArray/setUniformValueArray do not take arrays +- 931 isinstance() fails with Signal instances +- 928 100's of QGraphicItems with signal connections causes slowdown +- 930 Documentation mixes signals and functions. +- 923 Make QScriptValue (or QScriptValueIterator) implement the Python iterator protocol +- 922 QScriptValue's repr() should give some information about its data +- 900 QtCore.Property as decorator +- 895 jQuery version is outdated, distribution code de-duplication breaks documentation search +- 731 Can't specify more than a single 'since' argument +- 983 copy.deepcopy raises SystemError with QColor +- 947 NETWORK_ERR during interaction QtWebKit window with server +- 873 Deprecated methods could emit DeprecationWarning +- 831 PySide docs would have a "Inherited by" list for each class + +1.0.5 (2011-07-22) +------------------ + +Major changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Widgets present on "ui" files are exported in the root widget, check PySide ML thread for more information[1]; +- pyside-uic generate menubars without parent on MacOS plataform; +- Signal connection optimizations; + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- 892 Segfault when destructing QWidget and QApplication has event filter installed +- 407 Crash while multiple inheriting with QObject and native python class +- 939 Shiboken::importModule must verify if PyImport_ImportModule succeeds +- 937 missing pid method in QProcess +- 927 Segfault on QThread code. +- 925 Segfault when passing a QScriptValue as QObject or when using .toVariant() on a QScriptValue +- 905 QtGui.QHBoxLayout.setMargin function call is created by pyside-uic, but this is not available in the pyside bindings +- 904 Repeatedly opening a QDialog with Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose set crashes PySide +- 899 Segfault with 'QVariantList' Property. +- 893 Shiboken leak reference in the parent control +- 878 Shiboken may generate incompatible modules if a new class is added. +- 938 QTemporaryFile JPEG problem +- 934 A __getitem__ of QByteArray behaves strange +- 929 pkg-config files do not know about Python version tags +- 926 qmlRegisterType does not work with QObject +- 924 Allow QScriptValue to be accessed via [] +- 921 Signals not automatically disconnected on object destruction +- 920 Cannot use same slot for two signals +- 919 Default arguments on QStyle methods not working +- 915 QDeclarativeView.scene().addItem(x) make the x object invalid +- 913 Widgets inside QTabWidget are not exported as members of the containing widget +- 910 installEventFilter() increments reference count on target object +- 907 pyside-uic adds MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar) to the generated code under OS X +- 903 eventFilter in ItemDelegate +- 897 QObject.property() and QObject.setProperty() methods fails for user-defined properties +- 896 QObject.staticMetaObject() is missing +- 916 Missing info about when is possible to use keyword arguments in docs [was: QListWidgetItem's constructor ignores text parameter] +- 890 Add signal connection example for valueChanged(int) on QSpinBox to the docs +- 821 Mapping interface for QPixmapCache +- 909 Deletion of QMainWindow/QApplication leads to segmentation fault + +References +========== + +- [1] http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside +- [2] https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/PYSIDE +- [3] http://www.pyside.org/docs/pseps/psep-0001.html +- [4] http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySideDownloads |