[Accessibility] Race condition with other UIAutomation instances?

[Stefan Krause]

Maybe someone can give me a hint whether this problem could be avoided by
building Qt with configuration -no-feature-accessibility.

Thanks in advance!


Am Mi., 25. Nov. 2020 um 00:19 Uhr schrieb Stefan Krause <
stepkraus1 at gmail.com>:

> Hi there,
>
> I have a somewhat general question regarding the usage of Microsoft's
> UIAutomation framework in Qt apps.
>
> The story is, I have developed a QWidget-based desktop application that
> relies on an own instance of UIAutomation (the app analyzes user interfaces
> of other applications running on Windows). This has worked great so far
> while I did not update Qt and instead used Qt 5.6 for years (a version long
> before UIAutomation got introduced to Qt). I have recently updated Qt to
> 5.15.0. Since then my app unfortunately crashes occasionally with an access
> violation in QtCore.dll. Further below in the call stack I can see that
> UIAutomation is involved. It could be a race condition.
>
> My question is, could it be that one is not allowed anymore to work with
> an own instance of UIAutomation since Qt 5.11 and higher? I'm suspecting
> this because I saw the identical crash/call stack when I accidentally
> worked with separate instances of UIAutomation in separate threads within
> my application.
>
> Is there maybe a way to turn off QAccessibility entirely?
>
> Any clarification (or at least a hint) would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Also, please let me know in case this is the place for this kind of
> question.
>
> Best
> Stefan
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/accessibility/attachments/20201125/f18d925f/attachment.html>