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

[Diego Schulz]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:08 AM, <bd.anon at free.fr> wrote:
> Le Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:27:35 +0200, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>
> écrivait:
>
>>> > > 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.
>
> Why not let the application close normally, and then restart it using
> a simple watchdog application ?
>

In fact this is my "watchdog mechanism" :)
I think an external watchdog application/script/whatever makes
portability/deployment a little more complicated.
>
> This will work just as well, avoid any potential double QApplication
> initialisation problems, with the additional useful property that your
> application will restart even in case of complete failure, when you do
> not terminate properly.
>
Good point to consider. It's just that the application I'm developing
doesn't pay for itself and doesn't really deserves such level of
sophistication.
>
> Of course, you would have to disable the watchdog in case you were to
> actually exit the app...
>
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