Thread: Closing an application without killing main loop
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2013-12-04 , 20:26
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Originally Posted by vranki View Post
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.
Afaik you can only have one mainloop in both gtk and qt. I've never heard anything about having two.
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