[Qt-interest] return to command line but the GUI is still alive

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 01/24/2010 06:55 PM, Forest Yang wrote:
> Hi
>
>    I am writing a simple code to plot some data with QWT, I want it to
> be launched from command line and accept data from a pipe.
> After I type the command, the plotting GUI appears, and return the
> control to shell. The GUI can stay alive until I click the X button
>
> The standard app.exe() will wait until I send quit() to return to
> shell control. But I don't want to wait.

Why not simply from the shell:

generatedatacommand | yourplotapp &

The last '&' will send the process in the background.

>
> Any thoughts on this ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Forest
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