Thanks Sze-Howe! That's what I thought, and that stackoverflow posting gave me some other things to try.
Thanks! -Eric On Jan 23, 2014, at 4:49 AM, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest