using shiboken to wrap non-QObject classes

phtaylor

hi, I'm just looking into Shiboken and have a question.
From reading the history of shiboken, I had thought that it could be used to wrap any C++ classes for Python, even those not derived from QObject.

I realize that to support signals, a class must derive from QObject, but in the case of simple math types, is this still necessary?
Can I wrap simple class hierarchies and eliminate the dependency on Qt? (hypothetical question).

Thanks
Phil

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

I haven't used shiboken yet but is it that what that question answers ?

phtaylor

Hi SGaist, Thanks!.
Yes, that does answer my question, and in fact I had been skimming through the docs and read those parts already.

The source of my confusion came from reading this tutorial

http://wiki.qt.io/PySide_Binding_Generation_Tutorial:_Module_1_Creating_the_foo_library

In the example, Math inherits from QObject which didn't seem necessary based on the docs. It could be a simple C++ class with no ancestors. So I thought that maybe in the end there was some dependency on Qt and decided to double-check.

class Math : public QObject

There is another tutorial on your website that also covers Shiboken, and I can clearly see that FooClass is not derived from QObject, which confirms your answer.
https://wiki.qt.io/PySide_Shiboken_Tutorial

class FOOLIBSHARED_EXPORT FooClass

I hadn't downloaded the source code for that tutorial till now.
Thanks for the quick answer.

SGaist

You're welcome !

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