Re: QCoreApplication will not quit

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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:12:38 +0930, Adrian Casey <mail@agcasey.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
>> Can someone please explain why this simple PyQt4 application never exits?
>> 
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>> from PyQt4 import QtCore
>> import sys
>> class foo(QtCore.QObject):
>> def __init__(self, parent):
>> QtCore.QObject.__init__(self, parent)
>> self.parent = parent
>> self.end_job()
>> 
>> def end_job(self):
>> QtCore.QCoreApplication.quit()
>> 
>> if __name__ == '__main__':
>> app = QtCore.QCoreApplication(sys.argv)
>> myFoo = foo(parent=None)
>> sys.exit(app.exec_())
>> 
> Uhm... Could it be because you've shut down the application before
> ever starting it?
> 
> Note that your __init__() method -- invoked when you create "myFoo",
> ENDS with a call to end_job() which invokes the framework quit() method.
> 
> THEN after all this framework shut down, you invoke the app.exec_()
> on a framework that has nothing left to run?
Thanks Dennis. I should have seen that!

Cheers.
Adrian.

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QCoreApplication will not quit Adrian Casey <mail@agcasey.com> - 2011-04-02 14:12 +0930
  Re: QCoreApplication will not quit Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-04-02 11:28 -0700
    Re: QCoreApplication will not quit Adrian Casey <mail@agcasey.com> - 2011-04-03 15:13 +0930

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