Thread: Closing an application without killing main loop
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vranki is offline vranki
2013-12-04 , 20:10
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#12
Originally Posted by xerxes2 View Post
Why are you calling eventLoop.exec()? You already has one mainloop running so just put your cleanup code in the aboutToQuit callback instead. The mainloop will not exit before the aboutToQuit callback returns. There was a bug in earlier sdk but in the latest version it works just fine.
The app is single threaded - everything happens in the main event loop. Everything (signals, slots, timers, networking) is frozen during aboutToQuit() call. That's why i'd need a second event loop to do processing without exiting aboutToQuit() in main thread.