Bugfixes:

- GraphicsView.render now correctly invokes GraphicsScene.prepareForPaint
 - Fixed RemoteGraphicsView renderer to use new PyQt QImage API.
 - multiprocess.Process now pipes stdout/err directly to console when in debugging mode

examples/RemoteGraphicsView.py

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ from pyqtgraph.widgets.RemoteGraphicsView import RemoteGraphicsView
 app = pg.mkQApp()
 
 ## Create the widget
-v = RemoteGraphicsView(debug=False)
+v = RemoteGraphicsView(debug=False)  # setting debug=True causes both processes to print information
+                                    # about interprocess communication
 v.show()
 v.setWindowTitle('pyqtgraph example: RemoteGraphicsView')
 

pyqtgraph/__init__.py

@@ -311,13 +311,15 @@ def image(*args, **kargs):
     return w
 show = image  ## for backward compatibility
 
-def dbg():
+def dbg(*args, **kwds):
     """
     Create a console window and begin watching for exceptions.
+    
+    All arguments are passed to :func:`ConsoleWidget.__init__() <pyqtgraph.console.ConsoleWidget.__init__>`.
     """
     mkQApp()
     from . import console
-    c = console.ConsoleWidget()
+    c = console.ConsoleWidget(*args, **kwds)
     c.catchAllExceptions()
     c.show()
     global consoles

pyqtgraph/multiprocess/bootstrap.py

@@ -20,10 +20,8 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         
     if opts.pop('pyside', False):
         import PySide
-    #import pyqtgraph
-    #import pyqtgraph.multiprocess.processes
+    
     targetStr = opts.pop('targetStr')
     target = pickle.loads(targetStr)  ## unpickling the target should import everything we need
-    #target(name, port, authkey, ppid)
     target(**opts)  ## Send all other options to the target function
     sys.exit(0)

pyqtgraph/multiprocess/processes.py

@@ -48,9 +48,10 @@ class Process(RemoteEventHandler):
                       it must be picklable (bound methods are not).
         copySysPath   If True, copy the contents of sys.path to the remote process
         debug         If True, print detailed information about communication
-                      with the child process.
+                      with the child process. Note that this option may cause
+                      strange behavior on some systems due to a python bug:
+                      http://bugs.python.org/issue3905
         ============  =============================================================
-        
         """
         if target is None:
             target = startEventLoop
@@ -81,8 +82,14 @@ class Process(RemoteEventHandler):
         self.debugMsg('Starting child process (%s %s)' % (executable, bootstrap))
         
         ## note: we need all three streams to have their own PIPE due to this bug:
-        ## http://bugs.python.org/issue3905 
-        self.proc = subprocess.Popen((executable, bootstrap), stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        ## http://bugs.python.org/issue3905
+        if debug is True:  # when debugging, we need to keep the usual stdout
+            stdout = sys.stdout
+            stderr = sys.stderr
+        else:
+            stdout = subprocess.PIPE
+            stderr = subprocess.PIPE
+        self.proc = subprocess.Popen((executable, bootstrap), stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr)
         
         targetStr = pickle.dumps(target)  ## double-pickle target so that child has a chance to 
                                           ## set its sys.path properly before unpickling the target

pyqtgraph/widgets/GraphicsView.py

@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ class GraphicsView(QtGui.QGraphicsView):
         #print "GV: paint", ev.rect()
         return QtGui.QGraphicsView.paintEvent(self, ev)
     
+    def render(self, *args, **kwds):
+        self.scene().prepareForPaint()
+        return QtGui.QGraphicsView.render(self, *args, **kwds)
+        
+    
     def close(self):
         self.centralWidget = None
         self.scene().clear()

pyqtgraph/widgets/RemoteGraphicsView.py

@@ -18,12 +18,15 @@ class RemoteGraphicsView(QtGui.QWidget):
     
     """
     def __init__(self, parent=None, *args, **kwds):
+        """
+        The keyword arguments 'debug' and 'name', if specified, are passed to QtProcess.__init__().
+        """
         self._img = None
         self._imgReq = None
         self._sizeHint = (640,480)  ## no clue why this is needed, but it seems to be the default sizeHint for GraphicsView.
                                     ## without it, the widget will not compete for space against another GraphicsView.
         QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self)
-        self._proc = mp.QtProcess(debug=kwds.pop('debug', False))
+        self._proc = mp.QtProcess(debug=kwds.pop('debug', False), name=kwds.pop('name', None))
         self.pg = self._proc._import('pyqtgraph')
         self.pg.setConfigOptions(**self.pg.CONFIG_OPTIONS)
         rpgRemote = self._proc._import('pyqtgraph.widgets.RemoteGraphicsView')
@@ -123,6 +126,7 @@ class Renderer(GraphicsView):
     
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
         ## Create shared memory for rendered image
+        #pg.dbg(namespace={'r': self})
         if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
             self.shmtag = "pyqtgraph_shmem_" + ''.join([chr((random.getrandbits(20)%25) + 97) for i in range(20)])
             self.shm = mmap.mmap(-1, mmap.PAGESIZE, self.shmtag) # use anonymous mmap on windows
@@ -184,7 +188,11 @@ class Renderer(GraphicsView):
                 self.img = QtGui.QImage(ch, self.width(), self.height(), QtGui.QImage.Format_ARGB32)
             else:
                 address = ctypes.addressof(ctypes.c_char.from_buffer(self.shm, 0))
-                self.img = QtGui.QImage(sip.voidptr(address), self.width(), self.height(), QtGui.QImage.Format_ARGB32)
+                try:
+                    self.img = QtGui.QImage(sip.voidptr(address), self.width(), self.height(), QtGui.QImage.Format_ARGB32)
+                except TypeError:
+                    # different versions of pyqt have different requirements here..
+                    self.img = QtGui.QImage(memoryview(buffer(self.shm)), self.width(), self.height(), QtGui.QImage.Format_ARGB32)
             self.img.fill(0xffffffff)
             p = QtGui.QPainter(self.img)
             self.render(p, self.viewRect(), self.rect())