[Pythonmac-SIG] Can any cross platform gui framework limitations be filled with ctypes / pyobjc or other?

[Paul Wiseman]

On 9 July 2013 14:08, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On 9 Jul, 2013, at 14:56, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:
>
> > On 7/9/13 5:46 AM, Paul Wiseman wrote:
> >
> >> But would anyone know if it would be possible to implement these
> >> platform specific bits whilst using PySide, using ctypes / pyobjc etc?
> >> (window animations, mac sheets etc.)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > This SO page has a few different examples of flipping windows in Cocoa:
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2490069/flipping-a-window-in-cocoa
> >
> > I have no idea how easy it is to call Objective-C using a C API like
> ctypes. Perhaps Ronald can weigh in on that.
>
> Shouldn't be that hard, but I'd use PyObjC for that :-)
>
> What I don't know is how much Qt would like you tweaking the window state
> like this, and if it even has methods to retrieve the native widgets that
> are backing the Qt ones (that is, can you even get the NSWindow* for a Qt
> window object?).
>
>
It looks like you can get the native window handle which is promising:
https://deptinfo-ensip.univ-poitiers.fr/ENS/pyside-docs/PySide/QtGui/QWidget.html#PySide.QtGui.PySide.QtGui.QWidget.winId

Is this handle enough to be able to mess with the window with PyObjC?


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