[Interest] Running Qt in a shared library on a Mac

[Sze Howe Koh]

On 23 January 2014 17:11, Till Oliver Knoll <till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com> wrote:
> However "GUI thread" is a more correct term, since - AFAIK - the instance of
> QApplication does not necessarily have to "live" in the "main thread": you
> should be able to instantiate a new thread and instantiate QApplication in
> that thread. If you restrict all your (Qt) painting to that same thread
> everything should be fine.

This is true on Windows, Linux, and Carbon Mac.

But unless I've grossly misunderstood something, this is not true on
Cocoa Mac: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9761953/running-a-cocoa-gui-in-a-non-main-thread


Regards,
Sze-Howe