On Tuesday August 29 2017 02:02:59 Gabriel de Dietrich wrote:
>FYI: QCocoaMenu: Stop update timer 
>(Merged)<https://codereview.qt-project.org/203791>

Thanks for the heads-up.

>
>On Aug 29, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Thiago Macieira 
><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>On Monday, 28 August 2017 17:06:18 PDT René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>       killTimer(m_updateTimer);

>Yeah, if you don't kill the timer, it will keep firing.

Which we just rediscovered :) Funny though, apparently 1 misdirected 
startTimer() call can turn any application in a CPU hog that burns cycles 
without ever doing anything. Wouldn't it be safer for QObject::timerEvent() to 
kill any timer that triggers it, possibly even do an abort if it can do some 
kind of runtime debug mode detection? At least then it's set to a 0 (zero) 
interval?

It took me an unreasonable amount of time trying to figure out the reason for 
the burning, the fact that QCocoaMenu::timerEvent() could be being called as 
fast as possible and for nothing occurred to me only after trying all other 
possibilities. And I knew only the timer change could be the culprit; I can 
only imagine how much more time I'd have spent if this bug had been latent for 
a few months.

BTW, the 1st application in which I noticed this doesn't use the native menubar 
at all. I'm going to have to try and understand what business it has using 
QCocoaMenu...

R.
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