On 23 January 2014 17:11, Till Oliver Knoll <till.oliver.kn...@gmail.com> wrote: > However "GUI thread" is a more correct term, since - AFAIK - the instance of > QApplication does not necessarily have to "live" in the "main thread": you > should be able to instantiate a new thread and instantiate QApplication in > that thread. If you restrict all your (Qt) painting to that same thread > everything should be fine.
This is true on Windows, Linux, and Carbon Mac. But unless I've grossly misunderstood something, this is not true on Cocoa Mac: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9761953/running-a-cocoa-gui-in-a-non-main-thread Regards, Sze-Howe _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
