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    Default How to confirm the clean exit of QApplication

    Dear experts,


    I am working on one project where I use Qt for GUI development. Qt is running at the main thread. I would like to confirm the clean exit of the QApplication. This is required to do some post application exit operation such as running exit handlers.

    When the application needs to exited I use,

    qApp->quit();

    to confirm the successful exit of the QApplication, I use

    if ( true == qApp->closingDown())
    {
    //Successfull exit of the QApplication. Do post exit operations
    }


    Questions:
    a. Does qApp->quit() immediately makes qApp->closingDown() function to return the true value.
    b. Are there any other way to confirm the successful exit of the QApplication?

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    Default Re: How to confirm the clean exit of QApplication

    You can cleanup after QApplication::exec() returns before returning from main().

    Qt Code:
    1. int main(...) {
    2. QApplication app(...);
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    4. int ret = app.exec();
    5. doCleanup();
    6. return ret;
    7. }
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    Default Re: How to confirm the clean exit of QApplication

    How about QCoreApplication::aboutToQuit signal ?

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    Default Re: How to confirm the clean exit of QApplication

    I guess it mosly depends on whether you need the event loop during cleanup.
    If you do, Lesiok's suggestion would give you that, if you don't, I'd also go for Wysota's suggestion.

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    Default Re: How to confirm the clean exit of QApplication

    Thanks for the response.

    I want to do the cleanup activities post the QApplication exit. The QApplication documentation says that
    "We recommend that you connect clean-up code to the aboutToQuit() signal, instead of putting it in your application's main() function. This is because, on some platforms the QApplication::exec() call may not return."
    QApplication.

    Can
    void qAddPostRoutine(QtCleanUpFunction ptr)
    helps to confirm the clean exit of the application and do the cleanup activities?


    Added after 19 minutes:


    In our application, We need to call the "exit(someExitCode)" from different thread which inturn runs the registered exit handlers for cleanup activities.
    To call exit() fromother thread, other thread must be sure that QApplication is exited ( event loop is exited) and no more events are processed in Qt event loop.

    So does qAppPostRoutine helps in this regard? Or are there any best way for my problem context?

    Thanking You

    Regards
    Last edited by sraju; 18th August 2014 at 18:49.

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    Default Re: How to confirm the clean exit of QApplication

    Well, if you happen to be on a platform where exec() does not return, then main() doesn't exit either, so the QApplication does not go out of scope, thus is not deleted, thus its destructor is not invoked and cannot call then post routines.

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    Default Re: How to confirm the clean exit of QApplication

    @ands_skoa Yes you are right. Post routines cannot be executed if QApplication::exec() doesn't return. The platform in which I am working returns from exec.

    As a sloution, I am thinking to use QCoreApplication::exit(withSuccessExitCode) ( instead of qApp->quit()) to ensure the successful exit of the QApplication so that I can happily perform post routine activities.

    Kindly post your opinion.
    Last edited by sraju; 18th August 2014 at 23:46. Reason: missed statements

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    Default Re: How to confirm the clean exit of QApplication

    Quote Originally Posted by sraju View Post
    @ands_skoa Yes you are right. Post routines cannot be executed if QApplication::exec() doesn't return. The platform in which I am working returns from exec.

    As a sloution, I am thinking to use QCoreApplication::exit(withSuccessExitCode) ( instead of qApp->quit()) to ensure the successful exit of the QApplication so that I can happily perform post routine activities.
    Basically calling quit() or exit() are equivalent. The docs of quit() say:

    Quote Originally Posted by docs
    Tells the application to exit with return code 0 (success). Equivalent to calling QCoreApplication::exit(0).
    I think you are spending much too much time on thinking about this. It seems that whatever solution you choose that launches after event processing stops will be ok for you. There is no "best" approach here so why spend so much time trying to discover what the "best" solution is?
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