[Qgis-developer] Sip flag to generate docstrings

[Gary Sherman]

On Feb 19, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Larry Shaffer wrote:

> On a similar side note, not sure what Python editor you use, but with Eric4 (and its mini editor) you could also have auto-completion of the PyQGIS methods, etc if there was a QScintilla API file generated with the sip '-a <output api file>' option as well. I don't believe QScintilla even needs to be installed.
> 
> However, I have not been able to get the -a option to work when adding to the SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS, fails on compile. Have you (or anyone else) tried this in addtion to the -o flag?
> 
> 

This line in CMakeLists.txt (top-level of source tree) works for me:
SET(SIP_EXTRA_OPTIONS ${PYQT4_SIP_FLAGS} -o -a ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/python/qscintilla_api)

Not sure where to place the resulting file though...



-gary

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