[Qt-interest] Returning arbitrary value?with?QApplication::exit ()

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 26.06.09 16:13:10, Pascal Patry wrote:
> On Friday 26 June 2009 15:43:23 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 26.06.09 15:22:45, Pascal Patry wrote:
> > > On Friday 26 June 2009 15:09:59 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > I don't think its safe to re-create QApplication, AFAIK this can lead
> > > > to subtle hard-to-track bugs later on.
> > > >
> > > > Andreas
> > >
> > > I don't want to say that this kind of design is wrong, neither that you
> > > are, but I think that developing a software thinking that a particular
> > > class cannot be instantiated again once destroyed is a mistake.
> >
> > Well, we're not talking about just any class. QApplication is certainly
> > special in this sense. It does a lot of setup stuff to actually make the
> > whole Qt "magic" work. Some of these things might not easily be
> > reversible and hence re-doing them might cause unknown or undefined
> > behaviour.
> 
> Whether it is caused by Qt or not, bugs should be opened in respective 
> trackers if this is the case.

Just to be closed as "can't fix" or "wont fix"? Sorry, fail to see the
reason for that. I know in theory there should be no reason why a
QApplication might not be recreated, however in reality things are often
pretty different. If I am really right about this, I'm still not 100%
sure for Qt4 (I am pretty sure in the case of Qt3)

Andreas

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