[Qt-interest] startDetached not working for standalone prog

[Doug Stewart]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I poked around, and nothing was immediately obvious.
> I will suggest though on a completely unrelated point that you don't check
> in Makefile and moc_* files. These are directly derived from .pro and your
> .h files respectively, much like an binary or library. So don't check those
> in.
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> Also, I'd suggest reading about QSettings if your settings get any more
> complicated.
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> Back to your issue, I've not experienced the behavior you are with QProcess
> in my own use.
> Try starting BASH (or whatever) and have it print the environment variables
> and see if there are any differences.
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I guess I need a volunteer tester to see If they see the same results.
Doug



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> *From:* Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
> *To:* Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Qt Interest <qt-interest at qt.nokia.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:08 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Qt-interest] startDetached not working for standalone prog
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> My knee-jerk reaction is to say getOctavePath() is not working the same.
> Are your relying on an environment variable and not set it?
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> You always compile it. Here's what to try:
> Run in creator (Debug) I assume this works?
> Run in creator (Release) I assume this works?
> Run outside creator (Debug) I assume this fails?
> Run outside creator (Release) I assume this fails?
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> getOctavePath()  is always working  It starts octave from all 4 of
> your scenarios.
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> The last 2 options Octave starts up and shows the correct graph and then
> closes.
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> The commands to octave are Identical.
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> The code is at:
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> http://code.google.com/p/fuzzy-teaching-demo/
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> I am running in  Ubuntu
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> Doug
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> *From:* Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
> *To:* Qt Interest <qt-interest at qt.nokia.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:13 PM
> *Subject:* [Qt-interest] startDetached not working for standalone prog
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>     QProcess *process = new QProcess();
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>     /* My dad wants this to start detached, so that many can be open at the
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>      * same time.
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>      */
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>     process->startDetached(m_system->getOctavePath(), QStringList() << fileName);
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> With this code It  sort of works the way the doc states.
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>    When I run it from Qtcreator It starts a new window with octave running
> in the window, and I can start many more of these which is what I want.
>    When I close my C++ program then all these separate windows close.
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>   When I compile to an executable and run it, the new window gets started
> but then immediately closes. Not what I want!!!
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> Why the difference between running from the IDE and running from a compiled
> executable??
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> Doug
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