[PySide] Distinguishing QEvents originating in PySide2 from those originating in C++

[Cristián Maureira-Fredes]

Hello,

I will answer inline:


On 3/10/20 2:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> We’re writing an application in which we create numerous QWidgets of our 
> own in C++, while also embedding a Python interpreter which allows 
> customers to write and execute their own scripts using PySide2 from 
> within our application.

I guess this is based on the "Scriptable Application" example ?


> When they write PySide2 scripts which open up windows, and those windows 
> contain widgets which create QEvents, they are processed as part of the 
> same main event loop as our C++-generated windows.

Yes, because there should be only one Q*Application instance.

> It would be very helpful if we could apply an event filter which would 
> allow us to intercept events that originate from the PySIde2-generated 
> windows, to make us aware if end-users trigger events from their PySide2 
> windows which may affect the state of our application’s data.

 > Is there a way of doing this? Preferably without having to override
 > QCoreApplication::notify(), since that approach is deprecated in Qt6.


Maybe you can try to name all the QObjects that might interact with 
QEvent, so you can somehow check on the names with a certain prefix
to filter them:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qobject.html#objectName-prop

I'm unaware how other people out there is filtering such things,
or maybe the way of allowing the user to create their own things
from Python is restricted to a limited amount of widgets on the
main C++ application.

Cheers

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