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

Eric Feigenson eric at feigenson.net
Thu Jan 23 12:14:06 CET 2014


Thanks Sze-Howe!  That's what I thought, and that stackoverflow posting gave me some other things to try.

Thanks!

-Eric

On Jan 23, 2014, at 4:49 AM, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 




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