processEvents() and threads

**seneca** · 20th February 2009, 09:16

This may seem a elaborate solution just to get marketing happy, but how about spawning a mini-app in a second process just displaying the splash?

**talk2amulya** · 20th February 2009, 09:26

wow, now thats smth that may catch their attention cuz they DO NOT wanna change ANTH in the calculation function...who knows..but thanks man, that might be a good thing to remember as solving a problem..just spawn another process

**seneca** · 20th February 2009, 09:45

This is something I was seriously considering for long running print jobs, because for no apparent reason Qt does not allow to print a text document outside the main thread. However there is hope that at least this design flaw might get fixed somewhen:

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007...-and-printing/