[Interest] Adding existing QObjects to QJSEngine

[Kai Koehne]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Boudewijn Rempt
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 12:29 PM
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Interest] Adding existing QObjects to QJSEngine
> 
> I want to make Krita scriptable, maybe with QJSengine. I'm trying to give the
> js engine access to the existing objects in Krita: the images, documents,
> windows etc.
> 
> From the documentation, I though I would have to use
> QJSEngine.newQObject, but that takes ownership and deletes the objects as
> soon as the engine goes out of scope.

You should be able to change that with QQmlEngine::setObjectOwnership [1]

(yes, it's QQmlEngine, but I'd assume it works nevertheless also for QJSEngine instances).

Regards

Kai 

[1]: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qqmlengine.html#setObjectOwnership