[Qt-interest] No POSIX Signals in Windows; How To Capture Program Termination

[William Gordon Rutherdale (rutherw)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-
> bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Andreas Pakulat
> On 23.11.10 12:45:39, William Gordon Rutherdale (rutherw) wrote:
> > . . .
> > My question:  How can I write Qt code that detects imminent shutdown
> in
> > a similar fashion in Windows?
> 
> You can't, or rather Qt doesn't provide any abstraction for this. Your
> only option is to look into Windows native API and find out what
option
> you have for such cases.

Thanks for the clear answer.

I guess I can work around it by periodically dumping statistics using a
QTimer.

Thanks also to John and Ben for their ideas:  print after app->exec()
terminates, or use the aboutToQuit() slot.  Unfortunately, neither seems
to work.  The program just terminates real fast.

-Will