[PySide] QObject.destroyed() is not emitted

[Christian Tismer]

Hi,

On 11/29/12 6:37 PM, Stephan Deibel wrote:
> Alexey Vihorev wrote:
>> Thanks, nice find, but... I hit the next hurdle trying to go this 
>> way. The signal QObject.destroyed(obj) is passing no arguments 
>> (probably because obj is already destroyed), so my static method has 
>> nothing to work on. Which kind of devaluates the whole idea, IMHO. 
>> And in PyQt4 it*does* pass the object. Even more: in PyQt4 there is 
>> no need for static method approach, as it works perfectly with 
>> instance methods:
>
> Yea, you would have to bind the necessary data to the callback like this:
>
>   def on_destroy(val1=self.whatever, val2=self.something):
>     print 'destroyed'
>   self.destroyed.connect(on_destroy)

Here is a not really nice hack, but it works, based on Stefan's
bug tracker code:

The idea is to simply capture the __dict__ of the object and to abuse it
as the dict of a helper class. This way, although the object goes away,
it __dict__ survives, and we can work on it after deletion.


from PySide.QtCore import QAbstractTableModel

class MyModel(QAbstractTableModel):
   def __init__(self, *args):
     super(MyModel, self).__init__(*args)
     
     # This one does not work because the instance is destroyed already
     # so the method call does not happen
     self.destroyed.connect(self.onDestroy)
     
     # This does work because the instance doesn't have to exist anymore
     def on_destroy():
       print "destroyed signal: function"
     self.destroyed.connect(on_destroy)
     
     self.important = 42
     
   def onDestroy(self):
     print('destroyed signal: method')
     
   def do_something(self):
     self.important += 1

m = MyModel()

class Helper(object):
     def __init__(self, inst):
         self.__dict__ = inst.__dict__

h = Helper(m)

m.do_something()
m.important

del m
print(h.important)

print("Done")


----------------------- output:

 >>> m.do_something()
 >>> m.important
43
 >>>
 >>> del m
destroyed signal: function
 >>> print(h.important)
43
 >>>
 >>> print("Done")
Done


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